Dark Days

Name: Dark Days
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 30, 2000
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 75

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Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: August 30, 2000 | Not Rated

Summary: For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. Dark Days explores this surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable to those above. Through stories simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, intimate, and off the cuff,For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. Dark Days explores this surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable to those above. Through stories simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, intimate, and off the cuff, tunnel dwellers reveal their reasons for taking refuge and their struggle to survive underground. Filmed in striking black and white with a crew comprised of the tunnel’s inhabitants and scored by legendary turntablist DJ Shadow (Endtroducing…), Dark Days remains a soulful and enduring document of life on the fringe. [Oscilloscope Pictures]… Expand

Director: Marc Singer

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Time Out London Tom Huddleston

At once an investigation, a polemic and, in its final sequences, a tribute to human endurance. A remarkable film. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Remarkable first film. Read full review

TNT RoughCut Andy Klein

Compellingly watchable.

William Arnold

It's hard to imagine an upbeat movie about homelessness, but Dark Days is just that. Read full review

Steven Rea

Isn't as strong a film as it could have been: Only teasing slices of these people's lives are offered.

Ken Fox

Remarkable film. Read full review

Film.com David D'Arcy

Given the enormous praise, the film falls short. Read full review

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AlexK.

Oct 5, 2001

An amazing movie. The incredible and artistic cinematography aside, Dark Days accomplishes something so fundamental that most new documentaries seem to have forgotten: A story. We follow the lives of characters who we get to know and understand, and the movie follows a linear storyline that An amazing movie. The incredible and artistic cinematography aside, Dark Days accomplishes something so fundamental that most new documentaries seem to have forgotten: A story. We follow the lives of characters who we get to know and understand, and the movie follows a linear storyline that actually makes us interested in what's happening next, instead of the usual "seen five minutes seen it all" syndrome. Even accomplished filmmakers (ie, the Hughes Brothers and their neatly structured "American Pimp") cannot create the disturbing magic that Singer did.… Expand

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talisencrw

May 25, 2016

This was a captivating film I had wanted to see for some time now. Even though I know the world is like this, I keep on with hope, optimism and blind faith that something can be done to ameliorate the human condition on a global scale. No one should have to live like this unless of courseThis was a captivating film I had wanted to see for some time now. Even though I know the world is like this, I keep on with hope, optimism and blind faith that something can be done to ameliorate the human condition on a global scale. No one should have to live like this unless of course they choose to do so.… Expand

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Egypt1am

Aug 20, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I caught this on tv this week and thought it was really good, on the whole. There were a couple of characters that I wanted to slap (the guy with the portable tv and tommy who needed to get some ambition). It felt a little like Extreme Makeover Subway Edition and I wonder how they are getting on paying bills in their apartments after they were torn from Thursday homes!!!… Expand

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