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Morvern Callar (2002) directed by Lynne Ramsay

In the film, James Gillespie leaves a cassette labelled "Music For You" as a
Christmas present for Morvern

Ween - Japanese Cowboy..................................(played in the Mantrap pub


where Lanna and Morvern go)
Can - I Want
More...............................................................................
(played in the car ride after the pub)
Holger Czukay -
Fragrance.................................................................(played
during the start of the party)
Aphex Twin - Goon
Gumpas.............................................................(played towards
the end of the party)
Boards of Canada - Everything You Do is a Balloon................(played while
Morvern listens on the couch)
Can -
Spoon.............................................................................
(Morvern continues listening on the couch)
Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning.......(played in Tesco while
Morvern enters work)
Velvet Underground - I'm Sticking With You.......................................
(played during the tub preparation)
Stereolab - Blue Milk..........................................................
(played before and after burial out on the hills)
Broadcast - You Can Fall..................................................(played
while Lanna and Morvern make biscuits)
Holger Czukay - Cool In The
Pool...................................................................(played at
the bar in Almeria)
303 Nation - Double Speed Mayhem................(played after the bathroom when
Morvern exits the rave)
Lee Perry - Hold of
Death............................................................(played while
Morvern visits room 1022)
Taraf de Haïdouks - Cînd Eram La '48...........................................
(played inside the gypsy Mercedes taxi)
Cordevesa and Tanguillo - Amor Juan Jose Sanchez Crus........(sung inside the cafe
while Morvern drinks)
Eddy Arnold - Many Tears Ago...........................(played in the pub when
Morvern invites Lanna to travel)
The Mamas & The Papas - Dedicated To The One I
Love.................................(played during the last rave)
Aphex Twin -
Nannou.............................................................................
.................................(end credits)

Morvern Callar (1995) written by Alan Warner

Listed by Artist - Title [Album] Year and the page number of appearance

Pablo Casals - Nana [Siete Canciones Populares Españolas]


1914.........................................................p.04
Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly [Get Up With It]
1974......................................................................p.06
Music Revelation Ensemble - Bodytalk [Music Revelation Ensemble]
1988..........................................p.06
Can - Little Star of Bethlehem [Delay 1968]
1981...............................................................................
..p.14
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper [Some Enchanted Evening]
1978.......................................p.17
Cameo - She's Mine [Word Up!]
1986...............................................................................
.....................p.22
Cameo - Just Be Yourself
1982...............................................................................
...............................p.22
R.E.M. - Try Not To Breathe [Automatic For The People]
1992.............................................................p.24
Magazine - Rhythm of Cruelty [Secondhand Daylight]
1979.................................................................p.52
Magazine [Play]
1980...............................................................................
..............................................p.52
Bill Nelson's Red Noise [Sound-on-Sound]
1979...............................................................................
.....p.53
Last Exit [Iron Path]
1988...............................................................................
.......................................p.54
Spiral Tribe Sound System - Sirius 23 [Sirius 23]
1993...........................................................................p.56
The Mutoid Waste Company
1984...............................................................................
..........................p.56
Igor Stravinsky [Orpheus (Ballet In Three Scenes)]
1950.......................................................................p.57
Prince - The Future [Batman]
1989...............................................................................
.........................p.79
P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss [Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross]
1991..................p.79
P.M. Dawn - The Beautiful [Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross]
1991........................................p.79

Suitable Compilation Mix by Morvern (p.85)

Last Exit - Straw Dog/You Got Me Rockin'/Take Cover/Ma Rainey/Crack Butter [The
Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo] 1986
Last Exit - Panzer Be-Bop [The Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo] 1986
Miles Davis - Great Expectations [Big Fun] 1974
Sonny Sharrock - Dick Dogs [Live in New York] 1989
Ronald Shannon Jackson And The Decoding Society - Undressing [Decode Yourself] 1985
Luciano Berio - Visage 1961
Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance [Bitches Brew] 1970
Ronald Shannon Jackson - Taboo [Taboo] 1990
Ronald Shannon Jackson - Challenge To Manhood [Taboo] 1990
Bill Laswell - Assassin [Hear No Evil] 1988

Camping Mix by Morvern (p.92)

Salif Keita - Nyanafin [Amen] 1991


Les Têtes Brulées - Essingan [Zanzibar et les Têtes Brulées] 1988
This Mortal Coil - Another Day [It'll End In Tears] 1984
The Ink Spots - Up A Lazy River [The Ink Spots] 1959
The Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll [Blue Bell Knoll] 1988
Material - Disappearing [Memory Serves] 1981
Can - Future Days [Future Days] 1973
Holger Czukay - Persian Love [Movies] 1979
Can - Pinch [Ege Bamyasi] 1972
Can - Sing Swan Song [Ege Bamyasi] 1972
Can - Vitamin C [Ege Bamyasi] 1972
Can - Soup [Ege Bamyasi] 1972
Can - I'm So Green [Ege Bamyasi] 1972
Can - Spoon [Ege Bamyasi] 1972

The Golden Palominos [This Is How It Feels]


1993...............................................................................
p.118
Dreamfish [Dreamfish]
1993...............................................................................
.................................p.171
Spiral Tribe Sound System - Earthworm [Sirius 23]
1993.....................................................................p.171
Lee Perry - De Devil Dead [Time Boom X De Devil Dead]
1987............................................................p.182
S.D.I. [Satans Defloration Incorporated]
1986...............................................................................
......p.184
Lee Perry - You Thought I Was Dead [From The Secret Laboratory]
1990...........................................p.184
Lee Perry - Push, Push [From The Secret Laboratory]
1990................................................................p.184
Can - Gomorrha (Dec 1973) [Unlimited Edition]
1976..........................................................................p.195
Can - TV Spot (April 1971) [Unlimited Edition]
1976............................................................................p.1
95
Can - The Empress and the Ukraine King (Jan 1969) [Unlimited Edition]
1976....................................p.196
Can - Connection (March 1969) [Unlimited Edition]
1976...................................................................p.196
Future Sound of London - Room 208 [Lifeforms]
1994.......................................................................p.200
Orbital [Snivilisation]
1994...............................................................................
...................................p.200
Kraftwerk - Computer Love [Computer World]
1981..........................................................................p.200
Weather Report - Cucumber Slumber [Mysterious Traveller]
1974.....................................................p.200
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets [Here Come the Warm Jets]
1973...........................................p.200

Sunshine C90 Mix by Morvern (p.200)

Czukay Wobble Liebezeit - Full circle [Full circle] 1982


Joe Zawinul - The Harvest [Dialects] 1986
P.M. Dawn - So On And Son On [The Bliss Album…?] 1993
Can - Pauper's Daughter & I [Out of Reach] 1978
Scritti Politti - A Little Knowledge [Cupid & Psyche] 85 1985
Neville Brothers - With God On Our Side [Yellow Moon] 1989
Robert Calvert - Ejection [Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters] 1974
Hardware - 500 Years [Third Eye Open] 1992
Keziah Jones - Free Your Soul [Blufunk Is a Fact] 1992
Daniel Lanois - Still Water [Acadie] 1989
Spirit - Topanga Windows [Spirit] 1968
John McCormack - Come My Beloved [Atalanta] 1924
James Chance - Roving Eye [Buy] 1979
Hunters & Collectors - Dog [Human Frailty] 1986
Leisure Process - A Way You'll Never Be 1982

Material [Hallucination Engine]


1994...............................................................................
.......................................p.209
Echo & The Bunnymen - Blue Blue Ocean [Echo & The Bunnymen]
1987.....................................................................p.211
Parliament - One of Those Funky Things [Motor Booty Affair]
1978.............................................................................p.
213

Morvern also inherits some items after her boyfriend's suicide:

Film Items

-Brown leather jacket


-Golden push-button BiC cigarette lighter
-Sony Walkman Casette Player with head phones
-Mixtape of songs
-Novel manuscript saved on computer
-£30 in back jean pocket
-£3,839 in a Western Bank Ltd. checking account
-£100,000 publishing deal with Boddington & Barnes

Book Items

-Polished steerhide jacket


-Pair of yellowish low denier stockings
-Lighter that looked goldish
-Basque thing all silky (long corset)
-Sony Walkman with batteries
-Carton of Silk Cut cigarettes
-Novel manuscript saved on A drive floppy disc
-£6,839 on a debit Autocard
-£1,875 signing contract and £625 for publishing with Tom Bonnington
-£44,771.79 from Gillespie Estate of father

Finally a list of all the Scots Law charges that Morvern Callar would face if she
went to trial:

-Failure to register a death (James Gillespie)


-Preventing a lawful and decent burial of a dead body
-Perverting the course of justice (Disposal of evidence)
-Commiting benefit fraud (Using savings from the deceased; transferring funds
intestacy)

These are serious offenses which could result in felony convictions and 3-10 year
sentences

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