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  • Marty Supreme | Official Trailer (A24)
    Josh Safdie's new film about a ping-pong hustler, starring Timothée Chalamet.
  • How A24 Created a Viral Marty Supreme Spectacle (Vogue)
    The jacket drops, the Balenciaga collab, and the marketing machine behind the film.
  • Orlando (1992, Sally Potter)
    Tilda Swinton as Virginia Woolf's time-traveling, gender-shifting nobleman — this week's mini-challenge.
  • Watch Orlando free on Tubi
    Go watch it. It's right here.
  • Quentin Crisp
    Plays Queen Elizabeth I in Orlando; Merlin imprinted on that image.
  • Tony Zhou, "Edgar Wright: How to Do Visual Comedy" (Every Frame a Painting)
    The video essay that made everyone realize Wright is doing something nobody else does.
  • The Wicker Man (1973)
    The original folk horror — the thread connecting Hot Fuzz, Midsommar, and The Witch.
  • Off Menu podcast
    Florence Pugh's episode, in which she reveals she does not drink water.
  • Off Menu — Lucia Keskin (Chi With a C)
    BAFTA-winning comedian, discussed in the member show. "The quietest guest we've ever had."
  • Claire Foy had intestinal worms from filming The Crown (Yahoo News)
    The truly disgusting reason she no longer drinks caffeine.
  • Man throws shoes at Bush
    They all throw their shoes.
  • Sarrasine — Balzac (Project Gutenberg)
    The Balzac novella about a sculptor who falls in love with a castrato — the text Barthes famously dismantled.
  • S/Z — Roland Barthes
    Barthes's semiotic disassembly of Sarrasine — Merlin's "oh fuck you, you should read Sarrasine" recommendation.
  • Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach — Kessler & McKenna (U of Chicago Press)
    The book that changed Merlin's life in a 1988 Gender Studies class: what if there weren't just two genders?
  • Gender Trouble — Judith Butler (PDF)
    The definitive text — Alex's rec that Merlin bought a beautiful copy of and still hasn't read. Here's a free one.
  • Who's Afraid of Gender? — Judith Butler (Bookshop.org)
    Butler's newest book — the one Alex was actually talking about. Why are we weird about gender again?
  • "A Question and Three Answers" — Merlin Mann
    Three perspectives on one question about being trans in America.
  • Claude Code (Anthropic)
    Alex is getting into it and making $200; Merlin's teaching his to not watch Tommy read the paper.
  • Good Time (A24)
    The Safdie Brothers' sweaty Robert Pattinson thriller — context for understanding what Safdie does.
  • Uncut Gems (A24)
    Adam Sandler in a diamond district panic attack — the other essential Safdie before Marty Supreme.
  • The Curse (Paramount+)
    Safdie and Nathan Fielder's deeply uncomfortable TV series.
  • Ricky Jay
    Magician, card sharp, actor, historian of the unusual — referenced during the shoe-throwing bit.
  • Baby Driver — Opening Titles / Coffee Run (feat. "Harlem Shuffle")
    The scene that is its own argument. Edgar Wright syncing every footstep, every door, every beat.
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, "Bellbottoms"
    The song that opens Baby Driver and never lets go.
  • Ayoade on Top — Richard Ayoade (Bookshop.org)
    Ayoade wrote an entire book about the Gwyneth Paltrow movie View from the Top. It's called Ayoade on Top. Of course it is.
  • Olivia Colman is hooked on Ayoade's book premise | Graham Norton
    The specific clip — Ayoade explaining View from the Top to a delighted Olivia Colman. Truly one of the great things.
  • Can I Ask You a Question? by Jennifer Venditti (A24 Shop)
    Venditti's casting book — the woman who found the faces for Good Time, Uncut Gems, and Marty Supreme.
  • Billy the Kid (2007, Jennifer Venditti) — watch free on Tubi
    The documentary that led to her casting work with the Safdies.
  • Defunctland, "Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History"
    A feature-length orchestral documentary about EPCOT Center that has no business being this good.
  • Defunctland, "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History"
    Bonus Defunctland for the curious.

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