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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British film-maker Marc Singer spent two years underground shooting his remarkable debut feature, a compassionate documentary about the inhabitants of the Amtrak tunnel network beneath New York's Pennsylvania Station. With his monochrome imagery evoking Depression-era photojournalism, Singer makes an important distinction between homeless and hopeless, as he captures the ingenious ways his articulate subjects survive in their subterranean world. Yet there is also genuine pain in the frank discussion of the way in which drugs robbed some of life, if not hope. Less convincing, however, is the happy ending, when the Amtrakers are resettled in above-ground accommodation, which feels more like a victory for conformity over individualism than social justice.
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.
"...[An] unforgettable movie....DARK DAYS manages the tricky feat of humanizing its subjects without overly sentimentalizing them..."
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 ... more
This film by Mark Singer is completely unique.
Shot as a documentary about the homeless tunnel people under New York, the film gained many awards at ...
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Very good for the curious mind. Decent and credible film...Had no regrets seeing this one.
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 ... more
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 ... more
This film by Mark Singer is completely unique.
Shot as a documentary about the homeless tunnel people under New York, the film gained many awards at ...
more
Tales of tunnel dwellers living in the interstices of modern cities have gained the currency of urban myth or have been touched with romance - an image recently... more
Docrumentary about people without homes, living in the Manhattan subway system, in shanty style houses, in perpertual darkness. A harrowing look at the lives ... more
Documentary making at its best. A snapshot of the lives of people who although homeless and living in the dark strive to make the most of their lives ... more
This is a superb documentary. It doesn't make value judgements about its subjects who, after all, live underground by a subway line. It just follows some ... more
A documentary about homeless tunnel dwellers hardly sounds like a recipe for a nice quite night in with a glass or two of wine and a large box of quality ... more
Where are the young, gutsy, independent British filmmakers?
In New York it would have seemed.
Behold Dark Days one of the ...
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British film-maker Marc Singer spent two years underground shooting his remarkable debut feature, a compassionate documentary about the inhabitants of the Amtrak tunnel network beneath New York's Pennsylvania Station. With his monochrome imagery evoking Depression-era photojournalism, Singer makes an important distinction between homeless and hopeless, as he captures the ingenious ways his articulate subjects survive in their subterranean world. Yet there is also genuine pain in the frank discussion of the way in which drugs robbed some of life, if not hope. Less convincing, however, is the happy ending, when the Amtrakers are resettled in above-ground accommodation, which feels more like a victory for conformity over individualism than social justice.
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.
"...[An] unforgettable movie....DARK DAYS manages the tricky feat of humanizing its subjects without overly sentimentalizing them..."
A novice documentarist mixes with the 'mole people' of Manhattan's train tunnels. Marc Singer is not interested,... read more on Time Out
"...This is a wonderfully shot and snappily edited film....A triumph of documentary film-making..."
"...Singer displays a sharp sense of cinematic grammar....[A] remarkable documentary..."