Split Screen

Split Screen

11 Seasons

Your wild ride through the indie film world—by filmmakers, for everyone. From 1997 to 2001, producer and author John Pierson and his band of cinephiles roved the U.S. seeking pockets of movie madness, for this irreverent sixty-episode series.

Split Screen
  • John Pierson introduces SPLIT SCREEN Season Eight

    Episode 1

  • Split Screen: S8-E1 THE SIMPSONS in Korea

    Episode 2

    Meet Al Kaplon, umpire turned filmmaker on the set of an X-FILES baseball episode; lady fetish wrestler Deena Zarra shows off some moves and discusses wrestling, and beating, Andy Kaufman; did you know THE SIMPSONS was animated in Seoul, Korea? Come along as Doug Stone and PH O’Brien pay the anim...

  • Split Screen: S8-E2 Godzilla Revealed

    Episode 3

    A visit with Japanese actor Haruo Nakajima, better known as the original Godzilla; T. J. and Beth Larson take a look at the filmmaking juggernaut that is Billy Graham Ministries; Maggie Hadleigh-West’s profile on Karen Riposo and her multiracial children’s performing arts program featuring Jacob ...

  • Split Screen: S8-E3 The Fabulous Stains

    Episode 4

    Hanging out with a hard-core unit of Civil War reenactors down South; the story behind the cult masterpiece LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS; “How to Read a Movie Poster,” the hidden truth revealed! Original airdate 05/24/1999

  • Split Screen: S8-E4 Waiting for STAR WARS

    Episode 5

    Meet Robert Cartagena, a.k.a. Red Leader, for a look at the serious business of waiting in line for the new STAR WARS; experts weigh in on the realism of FBI procedures in the movies; bull rider Barry Tubb heads out west to the Taos Talking Pictures Fest where first prize is a $5,000 land grant. ...

  • Split Screen: S8-E5 Tinseltown and Vaudeville

    Episode 6

    Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, and his wife Ann go for the gold at Tinseltown, an interactive dinner experience in Orange County; visit Palm Springs Follies, a true vaudevillian revue; free-form radio station WFMU in Jersey City, NJ, reveals their vault of buried treasure, not only on vinyl but a...

  • Split Screen: S8-E6 Projections: Walter Bernstein

    Episode 7

    Of all Projections interviews, Walter Bernstein’s tales are the stuff of a grand movie adventure. From WW2 hero/correspondent to Hollywood Blacklist in five years, both his script for THE FRONT and memoir INSIDE OUT illuminate that era, while FAIL SAFE captures the nail-biting fear of nuclear ann...