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Cast
Marc Singer | ... |
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Directed by
Marc Singer |
Produced by
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
DJ Shadow | ... | (music by) |
Cinematography by
Marc Singer |
Editing by
Melissa Neidich | ... | (as Melissa Niedich) |
Editorial Department
Staci Vice | ... | assistant editor |
Art Department
Peter Charron | ... | special prop fabricator (as Charron Custom Propbuilding &FX Co Ltd.) |
Sound Department
Frank Cadden | ... | sound effects editor |
Peter Levin | ... | re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor |
Barbara Parks | ... | supervising sound editor |
Steven Simons | ... | re-recording mixer |
Additional Crew
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 |
Thanks
Lisa M. Haugen | ... | special thanks |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Madman Entertainment (2004) (Australia) (DVD)
- Oscilloscope (2011) (United States) (re-release)
- Palm Pictures
- SundanceTV (as Sundance Channel)
- The Criterion Channel (2020) (United States) (tv) (digital)
- Topic (2019) (United States) (video)
- Wide Angle Pictures
Special Effects
Other Companies
- REI Media Group (35 mm blow-up)
- REI Media Group (titles and opticals)
- South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) (festival)
- Sundance Film Festival (festival)
Storyline
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.
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Box Office
Opening Weekend United States | $33,039, 03 Sep 2000 |
Did You Know?
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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