SHAWN PHILLIPS - Film
 
 
 
  Run with The Wind (1966)

Shawn plays a guitar player, Paul Watson,  opposite Francesca  Annis,  who was also his partner in life for about 3 years.  He wins her away from her current love (of course!).  Francesca is who Shawn wrote his famous song "She Was Waiting For Her Mother At the Station in Torino and You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh" ( aka Woman)  about and recorded on Second Contribution.

read more about the movie and Shawn's role

read an interview with Francesca in 1992
in which she mentions how Shawn changed her life

read the NY Times review of Run with the Wind

 

poster courtesy of Jean Boissonneault

 

movies.go.com lists all of Shawn's films

more filmography on www.imbd.com

 

  Futurekick (1991)

If you rent this movie  "Futurekick" you can watch Shawn¹s head explode.  View trailer

Plot summary: "On Earth in the future Don "The Dragon" Wilson takes on a sinister corporation that trades in black market human body parts. He single handedly manages to restore law and order in a motion picture tour de force guaranteed to thrill science fiction and martial arts fans alike."

 

Soundstracks

Shawn composed the

music for the movie Abuse (1996)

"Inspired by a true story, an abused 14-year-old meets a filmmaker shooting a documentary about child abuse. A complex and forbidden relationship develops that changes their lives."

read a review of Abuse

Come L'Amore

Shawn wrote the soundtrack for the award winning 1968 film Come L'Amore (Something Like Love) directed by Enzo Muzii.

Read the NY Times review of Come L'Amore that mentions Shawn's music

unreleased - Devil's Highway......

Devil's Highway

based on the book by Luis Alberto Urrea

 

       
 

 

 
 
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