My Own Private Idaho

Supplementary essay and interview collection to the 2005 Criterion Collection DVD release of My Own Private Idaho. Listed as "A 64-page book featuring new essays by JT LeRoy and film critic Amy Taubin, a 1991 article by Lance Loud, and reprinted interviews with Van Sant, Phoenix, and Reeves."The book is organized and presented as...Prologue - Dramatis PersonaeAct I - "Private Places" by Amy TaubinAct II - "Boise on the Side" by JT LeRoyAct III - "Shakespeare in Black Leather" by Lance LoudOriginally appearing in American Film, September/October 1991.Act IV - "My Director and I" by Gus Van Sant and River PhoenixOriginally appearing in Interview, March 1991 with an Introduction by Graham Fuller.Act V - "River and Keanu" an interview of River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves by Gini Sikes and Paige PowellOriginally appearing in Interview, November 1991.Epilogue - DVD Production CreditsInterspersed between the interviews and articles are Marc English designed digital collages of film stills.