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English
United States
5 episodes
since Sept. 17, 2026
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Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage (1973) is a landmark study of intimacy, even credited with a rise in Sweden’s divorce rate. When Bergman’s son asked showrunner Hagai Levi (BeTipul, The Affair) to remake it, Levi struggled to connect with the original couple, so he swapped the genders. In h…

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Every world in director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things began on the drawing board of production designer James Price.  Adapted from Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel, the film follows Bella Baxter played by Emma Stone – a young woman brought back to life with the brain of a child by an unconventional scie…
Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest follows the daily life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss’s family, who have built a seemingly idyllic life in a house next door to the camp. While viewers watch the monotony of family life, the horror occurring behind the back fence plays out entirely o…
Twenty years ago, Sofia Coppola released her third film, Marie Antoinette. Its initial reception was famously divisive, but two decades on the film has undergone a significant reappraisal. It’s now widely regarded as a timeless portrait of a teenage girl thrust into an impossible role, and one of t…

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Welcome to Masterpieces, a podcast by Mastermind Magazine that pulls back the curtain on the making of some of film and television's most enduring works, told by the people who made them.  Each week one guest will return to a single film or series they brought to life for a detailed exploration, b…
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