Split Screen S1:E5

Spike Remembers, Waters Shocks

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.

Linklater & Bogosian in New York

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.

Kevin & Crumb at the Quick Stop

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.

Sundance on the Hudson

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.

Lurie Fishes, Gilliam Monkeys Around

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.

Errol Morris Rocks, Gators Chomp

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

Buscemi & Turturro on the Block

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.

Meet the Skolnicks

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.

Enter the Blair Witch

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.