Dark Days
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 25, 2001
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Marc Singer | |
Edited by | Melissa Neidich | |
Composition by | DJ Shadow | |
Produced by | Ben Freedman |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Marc Singer's film shows an extraordinary world that exists below the streets of Manhattan...
Chicago Sun-Times
...There are stories here filled with sadness and deep regret....These sub-metropolitans have managed to create an atmosphere of warmth and community in one of the coldest places in Manhattan...
Entertainment Weekly
...Singer displays a sharp sense of cinematic grammar....[A] remarkable documentary...
Sight and Sound
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is a gritty yet often tender look at society's margins.
Empire
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This is the world discovered and illuminated by gonzo documentarian Marc Singer, who spent a good part of two years living with and chronicling the lives of a half-dozen tunnel dwellers for his remarkable first film, Dark Days
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
It's hard not to get caught up in these people's lives, or to be impressed by their resiliency.
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Baltimore Sun
...Exceptional....It's remarkable for where it takes us, how it takes us there, and the quiet way it changes our view of the word by giving a voice to people no one has much listened to before...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
DARK DAYS, a groundbreaking documentary from British director Marc Singer with a moving soundtrack from DJ Shadow, shows a way of life that is unimaginable to most people. The film focuses on a group of homeless people that live deep underground in an abandoned New York City railroad tunnel. During the daytime they scavenge for food on the streets of New York. At night, they retreat to the tunnel where they have built homes out of scrap metal, plastic, and plywood. They have electricity, furniture, and working kitchens, not to mention community, comaraderie, and the support of each other. Some of them have lived in the tunnel for 25 years.
Shot in vivid black and white, capturing both the grit (chicken wire and concrete walls, all precisely detailed) and the honesty (the residents have hit rock bottom and admit it) of the tunnel, Singer's film consists of candid conversations with tunnel residents, who are intelligent, funny, optimistic, and above all, human. One man confesses that he once had a wife and a child, and that he lost both to his drug addiction (crack cocaine), while one teenage boy living in the tunnel explains that he was abused by his family in Florida and simply ran away, finding life in the tunnel more redeeming. In the film's emotional, understated conclusion, Singer turns to New York City's Coalition for the Homeless for help.
Shot in vivid black and white, capturing both the grit (chicken wire and concrete walls, all precisely detailed) and the honesty (the residents have hit rock bottom and admit it) of the tunnel, Singer's film consists of candid conversations with tunnel residents, who are intelligent, funny, optimistic, and above all, human. One man confesses that he once had a wife and a child, and that he lost both to his drug addiction (crack cocaine), while one teenage boy living in the tunnel explains that he was abused by his family in Florida and simply ran away, finding life in the tunnel more redeeming. In the film's emotional, understated conclusion, Singer turns to New York City's Coalition for the Homeless for help.
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- UPC: 896602002364
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