Dark Days
by Marc Singer
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Actor: Marc SingerDirector: Marc Singer
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)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Dark Days
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. DVD Review: Homeless, yes; helpless, no
Summary: 5 Stars
Ready for a wonderland?
Early in the film, a homeless man uncovers a passage and lowers himself into an Amtrak tunnel--home to residents of a long-standing shanty town. What follows is, at times, wrenching: the interview with the woman whose children were killed in a house fire; tender: the man with pictures of his favorite pets; revolting: the cuts to the lighter snapped on, then on again, then on again, then on again, then on again--always lighting another crack pipe.
The neighborhood is broken up--you decide if it is an act of compassion or an act of cruelty--when Amtrak officials evict the squatters. After the residents are filmed destroying their shacks--you decide if the destruction of these shelters is in celebration or in anger--the film updates the lives of some of the residents. You decide if this lifestyle--scavenging for discarding food, hunting dumpsters for gay porn to sell; improvising alarms to protect themselves-- has been hurtful or helpful to the former residents. (Can our prisons boast of such success? Our schools?)
DVD Review: Very Interesting, Quite Surprising.
Summary: 5 Stars
"Dark Days" is a documentary where the film maker follows the lives of several people who live within the subway tunnels of New York City. This documentary gives an up close and personal look of how these people live and survive. The most surprising thing you take away from this movie is that although many of these people have problems (substance abuse, family, mental) they are surprisingly human and easy to relate to. The "houses" that these people build in the tunnels are amazing with everything from TV to running water. If you want to watch a truly interesting and surprising documentary, this is it.
5 Out of 5 Stars.
Description of Dark Days
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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