Dark Days
by Marc Singer
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Actor: Marc SingerDirector: Marc Singer
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
Cinematographer: Marc Singer
Producer: Marc Singer
Editor: Melissa Niedich
Producer: Avra Jain
Producer: Ben Freedman
Producer: Charlotte Stockdale
Producer: Christopher Griffith
Producer: David Wike
Producer: Giancarlo Bonati
Producer: Gordon Paul
Producer: Mette Jensen
Producer: Morton Swinsky
Producer: Paolo Seganti
Producer: Randall Mesdon
Producer: Rick Giles
Producer: Scott Bradley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
DVD Reviews of Dark Days
DVD Review: NOT WHAT I EXPECTED FOR WHAT I PAID FOR!
Summary: 3 Stars
This is definitly the type of documentary that you just want to watch once. Not something you want to waste your money on.DVD Review: ot nearly as good as In Search of the Mole People.
Summary: 3 Stars
Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000)
Dark Days would have been a much, much better movie if Marc Singer, the director and star of this film (if it has one), didn't want so very, very badly to be a rap star. Everything about the film, from its graffiti-esque box font to its DJ Shadow soundtrack to Singer's horrendous diction, for which subtitles should have been used a good portion of the time, leads me to this conclusion.
Singer's documentary, anecdotally made with the help of fellow mole people, details thirty days of Singer's life in the abandoned train tunnels that honeycomb subterranean New York (the same subject to be found in Viktor David's vastly superior documentary In Search of the Mole People). For the most part, it's exactly what you'd expect from such a thing, just chronicling the day-to-day life of Singer and his peers, though Amtrak throws in some drama towards the end when they send out a general eviction notice.
This isn't a bad movie, and it's an inherently fascinating subject; as long as you can understand what's being said, you'll find yourself glued to the screen. Just be aware that it's already been done, and much better than this. ***
DVD Review: compelling
Summary: 5 Stars
From the moment this film began I was drawn in. This film and the lives it chronicles draws the viewer in from beginning to end. The homeless "city" under the streets of New York is truly an eye opener, and after the film is over, I found my sense of empathy and understanding for our fellow human beings, driven to this situation, expanded tenfold. The music of DJ Shadow, an artist who has, in his own right, produced some of the most ground-breaking and beautiful music in recent years, was an excellent choice for the scenes throughout. You'll learn to love the characters - real characters in this movie, as they invite us to take a peek into their world, and you'll learn these people are just like you and me but made some bad choices and fell on some bad luck. What you might take away most of all is that even in the bleakest of situations, there is a light, if only one chooses to seek it out.DVD Review: Hope For Lighter Days
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this documentary very interesting. I couldn't believe how well these homeless people could get along in the subway tunnels. But I also found it very sad. All of the homeless people have a sad story. All of them ran out of hope and faith and ended up there. Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It's well worth watching.DVD Review: a tip of the hat to Marc Sanger
Summary: 5 Stars
Marc Sanger can be applauded for his outstanding heartopening documentary on a group of people living under a tunnel in New York City. Watching the DVD we get to know each of the characters and see ourselves as one of the same. They bleed and have a beating heart like all of us yet many of us close our eyes when we pass them by on the street corner. After being turned off by the educational system and the contradictions of our present society I left college and traveled across the country. I found my home on the streets of Berkeley California. Living out of my backpack I slept next to junkies and broke bread with abandon war vets. I know from my experience that many of those on the street have dreams and wisdom that rises above the average well to do human being. Marc Sanger gives the viewer the opportunity to become aware of one of the United States Of America most neglected epidemics. It would profit many in our own country if we left our homes and ate at a soup kitchen. Then maybe some of us that fail to appreciate what we take for granted would do so.
Description of Dark Days
"Dark Days" is the multi-award winning documentary from Marc Singer about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. The film depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above. In the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn Station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as twenty-five years. The director abandoned life on the outside to spend all of his time in the tunnels, making it his home for two years. Surprisingly entertaining and deeply moving, "Dark Days" is an eye-opening experience that shatters the myths of homelessness with the strength and universality of the people the film represents.For two years Marc Singer lived with the people who make their home in the tunnels beneath Penn Station in New York, creating an unflinching portrait of a part of society that is literally and figuratively beneath our notice.
"You'd be surprised what the human mind and body can adjust to," says Tito, one of the tunnel dwellers. He and his neighbors are homeless, but the tunnels offer them a degree of safety that doesn't exist on the streets above. In this strange place they manage to achieve a remarkable degree of domesticity, building shelters, keeping pets, and cooking meals.
Singer has an eye for telling images, such as Dee dragging a sofa along the train tracks like Sisyphus rolling his stone in Hell. With its grainy black-and-white photography and haunting soundtrack, this is a surprisingly beautiful film, but it is never sentimental, nor does it try to impose a false nobility on its subjects. Dark Days simply shows us a world that we never knew existed, and in this simplicity lies its power. --Simon Leake
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