DARK DAYS, a groundbreaking documentary from British director Marc Singer, shows a way of life that is unimaginable to most people. The film, which features a moving soundtrack from DJ Shadow, focuses on a group of homeless people that live deep underground in an abandoned New York City railroad tunnel. During the daytime they .. Read more
| Starring | Marc Singer |
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| Director | Marc Singer |
| Genres | Documentary |
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DARK DAYS, a groundbreaking documentary from British director Marc Singer, shows a way of life that is unimaginable to most people. The film, which features a moving soundtrack from DJ Shadow, 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. The residents have electricity, furniture, and working kitchens, not to mention community, comradery, 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, concrete walls, ramshackle shelters) and the honesty (the residents have hit rock bottom and admit it) of the tunnel, Singer's film consists of candid conversations with tunnel dwellers, 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, who actually resided in the tunnel while making DARK DAYS, turns to New York City's Coalition for the Homeless for help.
| Starring | Marc Singer |
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| Director | Marc Singer |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: not available |
Disturbing, diverting documentary, made over a period of two years, among derelicts and drug addicts, who still find life worth living, even in subterranean dark.
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Outstanding documentary
When Marc Singer heard about the homeless people living in the subway tunnels under New York he understandably thought it would be a good subject for a ... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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Endlessly fascinating documentary
This film presents a glimpse of a community many of us had no idea existed.
If I told you the homeless of New York built dwellings in dissused subway... read more »
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Difficult To Watch
This documentary would have benefitted greatly from an option to display subtitles. There is a lot of background noise on the film - including trains roaring ... read more »
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Dark Days - My Review
Absorbing documentary that delves into the ubelievably strange lives that have led to a bunch of people living in some abandoned subway tunnels. Some sad ... read more »
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