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Dark Days
Directed by
Marc Singer
2001
82m
Not Rated
Documentary
7.7
94%
89%
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A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
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Marc Singer
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Dark Days Reviews
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Singer deserves credit for attempting to put a human face on such tragic circumstances, but he appears to have gotten so close to his main subjects that he seems unwilling to make them, or their desperate situation, look too bad.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Revealing, if occasionally frustrating.
New York Daily News
David Bianculli
Moving and memorable.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This is the world discovered and illuminated by gonzo documentarian Marc Singer, who spent a good part of two years living with and chronicling the lives of a half-dozen tunnel dwellers for his remarkable first film, Dark Days
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Some of these hardy souls have lived this way for years, decades even, and they've lived not just to tell the tale but to suggest that they've created a viable alternative existence. At times, Dark Days almost makes you envious. But only almost.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie, as heroic as it may have been to produce, is more noteworthy for its intentions than its execution.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The lives of these people inside their shacks are full of surprises as well as grim confirmations, but the things we don't know about them also significantly shape our experience of the film.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A fascinating, beautifully photographed portrait of a vanished community: a group of homeless people who built a shanty town in the train tunnels beneath Penn Station.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Singer's stark black-and-white photography renders their world with the abstract horror of a German expressionist film, yet he's equally skilled at coaxing the grim personal stories of life underground.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Designed neither to warm your heart nor shelter you in the comfort of liberal guilt, the movie does what so many style-conscious, "subjective" documentaries have long forgotten how to do. It shows you a world, and stays the hell out of it.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Singer achieves remarkable intimacy with his subjects, who share their experiences and joke around with the man behind the camera as freely as they do with their peers.
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Marc Singer's feted 2000 doc about a Manhattan subterranean community has lost none of its power since its debut.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Dark Days is a well-paced look at an undeniably riveting subject.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Told from deep inside by people who trusted Singer enough to be open and candid, the film treats its subjects straight-on, without the kinds of patronizing or romanticizing that often mar generically well-meaning documentaries on the dispossessed.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
These are not mole-men, these are people who once had lives like everyone else. In the cold, in the dark, it's all too easy to forget that. Singer makes sure that we don't.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
The result is an eye-opener that takes us into Singer's experience and turns our perceptions of the homeless inside out.
Slant Magazine
Kalvin Henely
The documentary feels like it surreptitiously removed another barrier to more direct relations between those behind and in front of the camera.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
The amazing thing about this documentary is how normal so many of the lives are, even though they are lived in extraordinary circumstances.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
If nothing else, Dark Days reminds us how the unthinkable can assume a kind of normalcy.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Marc Singer's film shows an extraordinary world that exists below the streets of Manhattan.
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