Dogfight

i don't ask for much but i would like river phoenix back

lauren

When I was around fourteen, I was at a church dance and my dad pointed out a girl who was sitting alone in the corner. “Strange that no one has asked the prettiest girl in the room for a dance.” Rising to the challenge, I stood up, marched across the floor, and held out my…

Christian Ryan

the moral of story is all men are trash except for river phoenix rip angel

lou

excuse me that’s my emotional support nuanced anti-war rom-com

Siena 🌞

river phoenix and spinning the freewheelin' bob dylan on a turntable..... the dream

penny lane

I got stoned and found myself crying (ok sobbing) over the music box arcade room scene between River and Lili. And then on and off for the rest of it. This movie is so absolutely tender and clumsy and precious. The soundtrack is perfect. I feel really really emotional about…

Emalie

An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca’s funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili Taylor) and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie (River Phoenix), who meet on…

Criterion

Dogfight > Before Sunrise

Brian Formo

Amazing piece with Lily Taylor's gentle, vulnerable singing becoming a revelation of humanity, a moment where someone completely destroys the walls and poisons that have built up in another not through violence or anger but through intimacy. Taylor's performance is equaled…

Sally Jane Black