
West 14th Street, 1974

“River prepared for his role as a street kid by meeting Mike Parker, the hustler friend of Van Sant whom his character was based on. Parker’s quick, shy eye movements, his graceful hand gestures emerging from head-down repose, were exactly Phoenix’s in Idaho. He said he felt Phoenix extracting ‘those moves’”
– Esquire, March 1994



The Maltese Falcon | directed by John Huston | written by John Huston, Dashiell Hammett | 1941
