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Dark Days ()


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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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Directed by

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Marc Singer

Produced by

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Giancarlo Bonati ... associate producer
Scott Bradley ... associate producer
Ben Freedman ... co-producer
Ben Freedman ... co-producer
Rick Giles ... associate producer
Christopher Griffith ... associate producer
Avra Jain ... associate producer
Mette Jensen ... associate producer
Randall Mesdon ... executive producer
Gordon Paul ... executive producer
Paolo Seganti ... executive producer
Marc Singer ... producer
Charlotte Stockdale ... associate producer
Morton Swinsky ... executive producer
David Wike ... associate producer

Music by

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DJ Shadow ... (music by)

Cinematography by

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Marc Singer

Editing by

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Melissa Neidich ... (as Melissa Niedich)

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Staci Vice ... assistant editor

Art Department

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Peter Charron ... special prop fabricator (as Charron Custom Propbuilding &FX Co Ltd.)

Sound Department

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Frank Cadden ... sound effects editor
Peter Levin ... re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor
Barbara Parks ... supervising sound editor
Steven Simons ... re-recording mixer

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Jeff Kaplan ... 35 mm blow-up / opticals / titles
Richard Laslo ... 35 mm blow-up / opticals / titles
Keith Purdy ... Title digital intermediate: title scanning
Carlos Sanchez ... 35 mm blow-up / opticals / titles
Jerry Siegel ... 35 mm blow-up / opticals / titles
Curtis Tsui ... 35 mm blow-up / opticals / titles

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Lisa M. Haugen ... special thanks

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Plot Summary

Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing children, being coke-heads. They scavenge, they've built themselves sturdy one-room shacks; they have pets, cook, chat, argue, give each other haircuts. A bucket is their toilet. Leaky overhead pipes are a source of water for showers. They live in virtual darkness. During the filming, Amtrak gives a 30-day eviction notice. Written by

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Also Known As
  • Тёмные дни (Russia)
  • Ημέρες στο σκοτάδι (Greece)
  • Mroczne dni (Poland)
  • Sötét napok (Hungary)
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  • 82 min
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Box Office

Opening Weekend United States $33,039, 03 Sep 2000

Did You Know?

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Trivia The soundtrack for the film was provided by DJ Shadow (aka Josh Davis), who is a critically-acclaimed producer and DJ. He is notorious, however, for being very protective of licensing his music for other venues or projects, having declined many other scoring offers in the past. When a friend of Singer's saw the footage assembled to a rough cut, he suggested Shadow for the soundtrack. Singer got hold of a couple of Shadow's albums, and loved the music so much, he began to cut the music into his film without any contact with the DJ. When fellow producer Ben Freedman told him he would need the rights to the music, the duo concocted a scheme whereby they would write a note to him and give it to an attractive female friend who would go backstage after a show and personally hand-deliver it. It worked. Weeks later, the two scheduled a flight to LA to coincide with a last-minute meeting with Shadow and his agent. According to Shadow, he was prepared to turn down the men's offer to use his music. But when they showed him a rough edit of the film with his music that Singer had already cut-in, Shadow was taken aback and completely impressed. He not only let them use existing titles, but even remixed some older tracks intercut with new audio samples recorded by Singer in the tunnels as a special score done for the film. See more »
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