Blank Check with Griffin & David Morvern Callar with Emily Yoshida
Jan 25, 2026
Emily Yoshida, writer and critic known for Shogun coverage and hosting First To Breakfast, dives into Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar. They unpack Samantha Morton’s unconventional star quality. Conversations hit grief, music as narrative through mixtapes, Ramsay’s visual style and shooting choices, and the film’s moral ambiguity and tonal shifts.
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Ramsay's Focus On Interiority
- Lynne Ramsay consistently depicts outsiders stuck inside their own heads rather than showing tidy resolutions.
- Her films prioritize interior mood and sensory detail over conventional plot closure.
First View In A College Bijou
- Emily Yoshida first saw Morvern Callar at a student Bijou theater without subtitles and latched onto its soundtrack and mood.
- Scarcity of good transfers made early screenings feel like special events for her film community.
Adapting Interior Novels To Film
- Ramsay adapts interior, modernist novels by translating interiority into visual and auditory cinema.
- She avoids tidy explanations, letting images and sound carry character psychology.