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River Phoenix

December 2021

  • River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd and Robert Redford in Phil Alden Robinson’s 1992 film Sneakers

    Stream team
    Sneakers: Robert Redford and River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient, high-tech caper

    Phil Alden Robinson’s post-cold war exploration of cybercrime is bursting with big stars and big ideas about privacy and data

August 2021

  • Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell in Stand By Me, released 35 years ago in August.

    How we made
    Kiefer Sutherland and Rob Reiner: how we made Stand By Me

    ‘River Phoenix was like a 13-year-old James Dean. There was so much soul there’

September 2020

  • Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix at the 2020 Oscars in February.

    Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River

    Director Victor Kossakovsky, who worked with Phoenix on new film Gunda, says couple’s first child is named after Joaquin’s late brother, actor River Phoenix

October 2019

  • ‘Celebrating River now feels joyful’ … Rain Phoenix.

    Rain Phoenix on her new album River: 'My brother has been my guiding light'

    Two decades after losing her brother, Rain Phoenix is finally able to share his music. She talks about ‘the wild animal’ of grief – and learning to sing with River on street corners

July 2019

  • July 15th 2019, New York NY Samatha Mathis, Actress photographed in her Manhattan Apartment, Photography Christopher Lane/Guardian

    ‘It was too much loss. I fell apart’: Samantha Mathis on River Phoenix and her career revival

    The actor kept quiet for years about witnessing her then-boyfriend dying outside the Viper Room in 1993. But rediscovering her love for stage acting gave her the strength to move on

January 2019

  • ‘First of all, there’s nothing silly about acting’ … Martha Plimpton joined us for a live webchat in London.

    Culture webchats
    Martha Plimpton on The Goonies, Sweat, partying hard and quitting Twitter

    The star talks about modelling for Calvin Klein, returning to the London stage and why there’s nothing ‘silly’ about acting

October 2018

  • RIVER PHOENIX RUNNING ON EMPTY (1988)

    The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death

    Phenomenally talented and famously caring, River Phoenix’s death shocked the world. His girlfriend Samantha Mathis talks for the first time about that awful night, and the man behind the myth

September 2016

  • Keira Knightley in Atonement

    Weekend fashion special autumn/winter 2016
    The Measure of the season – what’s hot and what’s not this autumn/winter

  • Family fantastic: from left, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, George MacKay, Nicholas Hamilton, Samantha Isler and Annalise Basso.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Captain Fantastic review – thrilling and poignant

November 2014

  • Ethan Hawke

    Ethan Hawke: ‘Mining your life is the only way to stumble on anything real'

    The star of Boyhood and Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy reflects on his past work, life experience and blurring the lines between reality and fiction

September 2014

  • George Sluizer at the Berlin film festival in 2012.

    The Vanishing director George Sluizer dies aged 82

    Dutch director behind River Phoenix’s final film – who courted controversy with Ariel Sharon murder accusation – dies aged 82

April 2014

  • Shawshank Redemption

    Film blog
    Clip joint: the best Stephen King film adaptations

    Five of the best adaptations of Stephen King novels. Are there any others you'd add to the list?

July 2013

  • Hadley Freeman

    Cory Monteith: the Glee star's death is an all-too familiar teen idol plotline

    Hadley Freeman
    Hadley Freeman: Every generation has its death and for many teenagers the death of a celebrity is how they learn about mortality

April 2013

  • Judy Davis in The Eye of the Storm

    Judy Davis: 'I never wanted celebrity'

    Judy Davis is one of the fiercest film actors around. She tells Ryan Gilbey about the flaws in her new film, feeling let down by Woody Allen, and the release of River Phoenix's last movie

February 2013

  • River Phoenix in Dark Blood

    River Phoenix's last film makes its entrance 20 years after his exit

    Dark Blood has its premiere at Berlin film festival two decades after his death from a drugs overdose

October 2012

  • Dark Blood

    First look review
    Dark Blood - first look review

    Nineteen years after the death of its star, River Phoenix, George Sluizer's fragmentary, uneven and odd film was finally unveiled, writes Geoffrey Macnab

September 2012

  • River Phoenix, Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce in Dark Blood

    River Phoenix: the last film

    When River Phoenix died in 1993, George Sluizer abandoned the film they were working on. But after his own near-death experience, the director decided it was finally time to complete Dark Blood

October 2011

  • Actor River Phoenix, in 1988

    River Phoenix's final film, Dark Blood, to be released next year

    Director George Sluizer says re-edited version will be finished in 2012 and Joaquin Phoenix may fill in for late brother

July 2011

  • Rain Phoenix

    Rain Phoenix's unusual childhood

    Rain Phoenix was raised by hippies and, like her brothers River and Joaquin, has made a career in film and music. She talks about their unusual childhood

March 2011

  • My Own Private Idaho

    Film blog
    James Franco brings River Phoenix back to life

    Joe Utichi: Eighteen years after his death, unseen footage of the My Own Private Idaho star has been crafted into a compelling new film
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