If you need the specific text for a paper, you can find complete English subtitle transcripts (often used as a proxy for the screenplay) through the following:

: Provides downloadable English subtitle files (.srt) for various high-definition versions of the film on SUBDL . Critical Perspectives for Analysis

For a comprehensive paper on Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) with English subtitles, the following resources provide the best combination of full text transcripts and academic analysis: Essential Academic Studies

: Offers a full English transcript including timecodes, which is useful for citing specific dialogue like the father's interactions with his children.

: Available via Senses of Cinema , this essay analyzes the film’s "tableau vivants" (living pictures) and how its non-linear structure functions like shards of memory. English Subtitles & Scripts

: This is a definitive book-length study published by the British Film Institute . It explores director Terence Davies' unique visual style and his use of sound—including pub sing-a-alongs and the BBC shipping forecast—to reconstruct memory.

The Art of Memory: Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives