A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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Never on Sunday (1960)

May 16, 2011

Homer, American amateur philosopher, makes it his mission to disabuse Greek prostitute Ilya from her notion that all Greek tragedies happily end with a trip to the seaside. In doing so, he makes a pact with the local pimp, which then causes a working-girl labor strike. The film craftily gets around the idealization of independent whoring by then marrying Ilya off to an Italian. Melina Mercouri outshines her co-star, but it's still disturbing to see her surrounded by the tide of men in the ocean. The film would have benefited from either being wackier or more serious.