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May 02, 2004
Dark Days
As I write this I'm completely aware that I'm probably way behind the times with my knowledge of this film, but hey... I just got Netflix so I'm trying to catch up. The DVD I'm talking about is Dark Days, and if you haven't seen it you should. It's a documentary about street people in NYC who lived in the abandoned Amtrak tunnels that run from 72nd street to 123rd street on the west side. The "filmmaker" basically lived with these people for 2 years underground. It's shot on 16mm black and white. I put "filmmaker" in quotes because this was the creator Marc Singer's first film. The idea to make a documentary about these people only came about after he'd already been living in the tunnels for about 3 months, and one of the residents said "you know, someone should make a movie about all this." Check out the link above for a more complete description.
It's also pretty interesting that these tunnels are only about 5 blocks from my apartment.
Posted by Thomas at May 2, 2004 05:47 PM
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