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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
EAN: 0660200303624
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 18031
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Description:
"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.
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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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Rating:  -
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.
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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"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 ... Read More
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As even the negative reviewers have been picking up on, this film was beautifully captured, and reminded me very much of Jem Cohen's documentary work which is breathtaking (albeit in a very raw form).
Singer (the director) spent about 2.5 year living with and being with people living in the Amtrak tunnel in small 'houses' that they had built, showing the very real community that thrived there. IMPORTANT: watch the 'making of' documentary that's in the extra features, which in a much clearer ... Read More
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