RIVER PHOENIX As JAMES WRIGHT The Thing Called Love | 1993

RIVER PHOENIX AS DANNY PAGE RUNNING ON EMPTY, 1988

"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.

"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash

JAMES SPADER as James Ballard CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg

𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐖 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐘 & 𝐑𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐎𝐖.

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Hunter Schafer | IMDb Portrait Studio at The 2025 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California | February 22, 2025

Crash | 1996 | dir. David Cronenberg

RIVER PHOENIX 1991 | Dogfight

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix photographed by Abigayle Tarsches on the set of "My Own Private Idaho" (1991).

james' hands in crash

RIVER PHOENIX as JAMES WRIGHT The Thing Called Love | 1993 #for science