MIDNIGHT SNACK
Tony-award winner Alan Cumming has signed on as the host of Sundance Channel’s Friday night cult-movie destination, “Midnight Snack.”
The new season will debut on July 1, 2005 and will showcase eccentric, outrageous and over-the-top films for the late night crowd.
“Midnight Snack” airs Friday nights at 12:30 a.m. The season will feature 12 episodes including the mind-bending thriller The Tesseract, the blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown, and the hilarious comic melodrama/thriller Die Mommie Die!
The “Midnight Snack” lineup for July is as follows:
July 1st at 12:30am
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary (pictured above) – Directed by Guy Maddin. The idiosyncratic Canadian auteur blends silent movie and ballet in an extravagant, erotic and quite faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker’s horror classic. Performed to the music of Gustav Mahler by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, with Wei-Qiang Zhang as the seductive Transylvanian bloodsucker.
July 8th at 12:30am
The Tesseract (U.S. Television Premiere) – Directed by Oxide Pang. Thailand-based director Pang (The Eye) bends time and perspective – not to mention bullets – in this crafty bit of existential pulp fiction. In a shabby Bangkok hotel, events conspire to entwine the fates of four disparate characters: an edgy drug courier (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Bend It Like Beckham), a grieving psychologist (Saskia Reeves, Butterfly Kiss), a sticky-fingered young bellboy (Alexander Rendell) and a critically wounded hit-woman (Lena Christenchen).
July 15th at 12:30am
Ichi the Killer – Directed by Takashi Miike. Japan’s enfant terrible pours on the blood, horror and humor in this revenge saga based on a popular manga comic. A yakuza boss is kidnapped, and his scar-faced, torture-loving henchman Kakihara (Japanese superstar Tadanobu Asano, Last Life in the Universe) leads an inventively sadistic search for those responsible.
July 22nd at 12:30am
B. Monkey – Directed by Michael Radford. A sultry noir starring Asia Argento (xXx) as Beatrice, a London thief who decides to go straight after she falls for an elementary school teacher (Jared Harris, Igby Goes Down). But Beatrice’s criminal comrades (Rupert Everett and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) aren’t at all pleased about losing their collaborator.
July 29th at 12:30am
Dirty Work – Directed by David Sampliner and Tim Nackashi and executive produced by actor Ed Norton. A fascinating glimpse into three of society’s least sought-after jobs, Dirty Work profiles Russ Page, a reproductive physiologist who is hired by farmers to collect bull semen; Bernard Holston, a restorative artist who recreates the glow of life for the dead in their caskets; and Darrell Allen, a septic tank pumper who has written catchy odes to his lifelong profession.
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