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The Best Episodes of Split Screen

Every episode of Split Screen ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Split Screen!

Split Screen was a television series that originally aired from 1997 to 2001 on IFC. The series focused on independent filmmaking in America and was hosted by John Pierson. Split Screen featured segments from many

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    Split Screen Season 1 Episode 1 - Spike Remembers, Waters Shocks
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    #1 - Spike Remembers, Waters Shocks

    S1:E1

    Spike Lee’s first decade; John and Bob the Mailman; HANG YOUR DOG IN THE WIND (movie about making movies); the real Fargo—Brainerd, MN; and the Gruesome Twosome: an encounter with John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis.

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  2. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 2 - Linklater & Bogosian in New York
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    #2 - Linklater & Bogosian in New York

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    Richard Linklater and Eric Bogosian at the New York Film Festival with their film SUBURBIA; Linklater’s first film, IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN TO PLOW BY READING BOOKS; and a trip to North Reading, MA—Duct Town.

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  3. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 3 - Kevin & Crumb at the Quick Stop
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    #3 - Kevin & Crumb at the Quick Stop

    S1:E3

    Kevin Smith and John co-host from New Jersey; a visit with CRUMB director Terry Zwigoff at home; the found video DIRECTION MAN; Chris Smith and MAKING NORTHWESTERN with Mark Borchardt.

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  4. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 4 - Sundance on the Hudson
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    #4 - Sundance on the Hudson

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    Bob the Mailman in L.A.; insights from filmmakers at the Cold Spring Film Workshop; Marina Zenovich explores the January film alternatives in Park City, UT, home of the Sun-, Slam-, and Slumdance Festivals.

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  5. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 5 - Breakthrough Screenwriting
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    #5 - Breakthrough Screenwriting

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    Brian Flemming and Keythe Farley take a weekend “blockbuster” screenwriting course and make a film; Mary Harron and Katherine Dieckmann, both nine months pregnant, discuss their altered state with Guinevere Turner.

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  6. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 6 - Lurie Fishes, Gilliam Monkeys Around
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    #6 - Lurie Fishes, Gilliam Monkeys Around

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    John Lurie on his new series, FISHING WITH JOHN the musical ISLE OF LESBOS; Cyberhostage: two filmmaking cyberterrorists try to get our attention; The Hamster Factor: Terry Gilliams's first market research screening for TWELVE MONKEYS.

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  7. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 7 - Errol Morris Rocks, Gators Chomp
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    #7 - Errol Morris Rocks, Gators Chomp

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    SWINGBLADE: SLING BLADE meets SWINGERS; Pierson travels to Orlando FL, the home of the Florida Film Festival and proposes an “indieworld” theme park; a visit with a self distributing filmmaker from Vermont; filmmaker Errol Morris, accompanied by his bulldog, talks about films, life and art from his Vermont front porch

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  8. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 8 - Buscemi & Turturro on the Block
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    #8 - Buscemi & Turturro on the Block

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    Mr. Pink and Barton Fink: Steve Buscemi and John Turturro on a stoop in Brooklyn; Irwin Young shows us how things work at his venerable film lab DuArt; Taranteenties: PH O'Brien and Doug Stone scope out the Andover Youth Services Homegrown Film Festival introducing us to the next generation.

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  9. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 9 - Meet the Skolnicks
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    #9 - Meet the Skolnicks

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    Cinemoids: a portrait of the film obsessed family at Long Island's Cinema Arts Centre; Donnie Bosnia: the life story of two adventurers in eastern Europe; Sisters in Cinema: special preview of Yvonne Welbon's feature documentary on black women in film, with Julie Dash and Darnell Martin.

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  10. Split Screen Season 1 Episode 10 - Enter the Blair Witch
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    #10 - Enter the Blair Witch

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    Sunflower City: Lawrence, KS, the home of the family owned Sunflower Cable system, and CARNIVAL OF SOULS; HANDS ON A HARD BODY: an excerpt from Robb Bindler's incredible documentary; The Blair Witch Project: a three-crew documentary team disappears deep in the woods of Maryland.

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  11. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 1 - The Blair Witch: I Want to Believe
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    #11 - The Blair Witch: I Want to Believe

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    Sam Saldivar no-budget sci-fi thriller THE GIANT KILLER; one minute films loops with Gustav Deutsch at Windsor, ON’s Kinnotek Cinema; looking for the mysterious “Lady In Red” at Slamdance '97; revisiting the Blair Witch—a look at the footage found in the muddy duffel bag.

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  12. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 2 - John Wayne's Hairpiece
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    #12 - John Wayne's Hairpiece

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    SPLIT SCREEN hits the road! Making a film vs. running the NYC Marathon; visiting IFFCON to talk indie film financing; John Wayne's Hairpiece and other cinema treasures at the Smithsonian Institution in D.C.; filmmakers Doug Stone and P.H. O'Brien and Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty go looking for the America of EASY RIDER.

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  13. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 3 - Grizzly Man Walks, Orson Welles Talks
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    #13 - Grizzly Man Walks, Orson Welles Talks

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    “The Illusion and Reality” episode: Dan Myrick visits musician/filmmaker Billy Yeager in a Purple Haze in Hollywood, FL; movie VHS bootleggers in NYC; building a grizzly bear proof suit—Doug Stone and PH O'Brien visit Canadian director Peter Lynch; War of the Words—an infamous Orson Welles commercial recording.

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  14. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 4 - Carl Franklin Breaks It Down
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    #14 - Carl Franklin Breaks It Down

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    Self-distributing a documentary about talking to elementary school kids about gay issues; Filming in Charleston, SC, from Civil War pictures to slavery era epics; a visit with director Carl Franklin (ONE FALSE MOVE); Jacob Young’s ongoing project about broken down cars on the side of the road in the Deep South.

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  15. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 5 - The Tin Drum: Banned in Oklahoma
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    #15 - The Tin Drum: Banned in Oklahoma

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    'Reason to Believe” booking a film on college campuses with secret agent: Tedd Stuart; a visit with Bart Weiss, director of the Dallas Video Festival; surveillance video turned into experimental films; THE TIN DRUM— Tim DePaepe investigates how this Academy Award winning film was banned in Oklahoma City, OK.

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  16. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 6 - Keep Austin Weird
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    #16 - Keep Austin Weird

    S2:E6

    Student activists and local film illuminati protest the shutting down of the UT Union Film program; a profile of the inimitable character actor Lawrence Tierney; shooting Super 8 films at the Austin Cinemaker Co-op; “Documation” - Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta discuss their hybrid of animation and documentary.

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  17. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 7 - The Real Dude Abides
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    #17 - The Real Dude Abides

    S2:E7

    The RV crew hangs with Barry Tubb, an ex rodeo rider, Hollywood actor in Synder, TX; meet “Big” Joe La Creta: actor, wrestler, and sandwich master in Wilmington, MA; is there a “Real” Dude? Producer's rep Jeff Dowd claims there is. Marina Zenovich talks to the Coen Brothers and the cast.

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  18. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 8 - All That KC Jazz
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    #18 - All That KC Jazz

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    A visit with Bruce Ricker, director of THE LAST OF THE BLUE DEVILS, a 1979 film about a reunion of some of the town’s jazz musicians; shooting a film, performing in a band, and hosting a film festival – in Spain; meet some of the real-life counterparts of Martin Scorsese’s film, CASINO; find out what the Pequot Tribal Nation in Mashantucket, CT does with their gambling profits.

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  19. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 9 - Selective Service in Aspen
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    #19 - Selective Service in Aspen

    S2:E9

    The Aspen Shortsfest; SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM, a brilliant short, made when the draft was mandatory and anti-war protests were in full force; follow four ebullient NYC teens, who just happen to be working actresses and indie film stars on the rise; meet Todd Thaler, one of independent film's busiest casting directors.

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  20. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 10 - Mr. MovieFone's Message
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    #20 - Mr. MovieFone's Message

    S2:E10

    A visit with Russ Leatherman, Mr. Moviefone himself; meet Al Milgrom the Minneapolis “czar of cinema”; witness Dan Cleveland and his heavy metal band Dark Horse on their ascent up their basement stairs; “Cosmic Society” Amy Elliot and Lizzie Dornius introduce you to a company whose business is filming what can't be seen by the human eye.

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  21. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 11 - Damon & Norton Play Poker
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    #21 - Damon & Norton Play Poker

    S2:E11

    Matt Damon and Ed Norton head to the World Series of Poker; self-taught stuntman crashing cars from a junkyard; Cronenberg’s CRASH acted by stuffed animals; a screening of RED RIVER for cows at the Fairlee Drive-In & Motel in Vermont.

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  22. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 12 - Todd Haynes' Goldmine
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    #22 - Todd Haynes' Goldmine

    S2:E12

    Haynes and his longtime producer Christine Vachon cuddle up in Cannes; NEA public funding at the local level; an unusual outdoor screening on a hillside; a film festival sponsored by Dockers™.

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  23. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 13 - Animal Talent
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    #23 - Animal Talent

    S2:E13

    The Sweet Sunshine animal Talent Agency; RAT WOMEN: an excerpt from filmmaker Minkie Spiro’s short; what happens to the puppies and dogs left too long at the pound; a visit to Wall Street to try to raise some indie cash.

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  24. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 14 - Lars von Trier Is Dogmatic
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    #24 - Lars von Trier Is Dogmatic

    S2:E14

    Adam & Jo’s stuffed animal take on THE ENGLISH PATIENT; a rare visit with brilliant and phobic director Lars von Trier; Amy Elliott and Lizzy Donius visit volcanologists in Hawaii who film lava; Northwestern Airlines indie movie channel.

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  25. Split Screen Season 2 Episode 15 - Crispin Glover's Syndrome
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    #25 - Crispin Glover's Syndrome

    S2:E15

    A home tour and talk with Crispin Glover about his film WHAT IS IT?; Adam & Joe’s toy take on SHINE; mob character actor, Frank Vincent; Marina Zenovich checks out the trailer editing for the TOUCH OF EVIL reissue.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Spike Remembers, Waters Shocks" is the best rated episode of "Split Screen". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/10/1997. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Linklater & Bogosian in New York".