Popi

Starring:Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Miguel Alejandro, Reuben Figueroa, John Harkins, Arny Freeman, Joan Tompkins, Anthony Holland, Louis Zorich, Victor Junquera, Barbara Dana, Arnold Soboloff, Antonia Rey, Judith Lowry, Gladys Velez, Anita Dangler
Director: Arthur Hiller
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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Never on Sunday
Ayyyy....OPA!!!!!!!!!
Melina shines in this one
"The Last Greek Goddess",
Never on sunday

Never on Sunday
Starring: Koula Agagiotou , Despo Diamantidou , Nikos Fermas , Giannis Fermis , and George Foras
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B00008ZZ9J
Release Date: 2003-07-01

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Thirty-two years before My Big Fat Greek Wedding brought Greek-American culture to a mainstream audience, Never on Sunday took mainstream culture to Greece, with similarly popular results. Expatriate director Jules Dassin wrote, directed, and costars in this vibrant and (in retrospect) rather simple-minded celebration of good living, as embodied by the vivacious Melina Mercouri in the Cannes award-winning role of her career. She's Ilya, a fiercely independent prostitute who hand-picks her clientele, and Dassin plays Homer, an American intellectual enamored of all things Greek, and determined to steer Ilya onto the straight and moral path. He's out of his depth, of course; it's not long before his efforts are exposed as naively self-serving, and half the fun of Never on Sunday comes from watching Mercouri amiably deflect any attempt to dampen her indomitable spirit. Innocently good-natured by latter-day standards, Dassin's delightful film still retains its popular charm, and its familiar bouzouki theme is an irresistible invitation to join in the fun. --Jeff Shannon

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Nominated* for five Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Actress, Director and Original Screenplay, and featuring the OscarÂ(r)-winning* song "Never on Sunday," this "racy, arty comedy"(The Hollywood Reporter) is as intoxicating as fine Greek wine...and a "rambunctious" (Time) delight! Glasses are smashing, fingers are snapping and everyone's dancing to the sultry music of the bouzoukies! It's just another glorious moment in the carefree world of Illia (Melina Mercouri), Greece's most radiant lady of the night. Sensuous Illia adores her life, and every man in her seaport paradise adores her. But when Homer (Jules Dassin), a stuffy American intellectual, sails into town and tries to reform her, Illia shows him that she's one free spirit who's happy with her wild life and not about to be tamed. *1960: Original Song (won), Costume Design

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Never on Sunday.......2007-06-28

Ousted from Hollywood during the blacklist years, noir director Jules Dassin ("Rififi") fashioned this buoyant, flavorful romantic comedy with real-life wife Mercouri and scored a direct hit. As Homer, Dassin is an awkwardly earnest presence, desperately longing to cultivate the confident, effervescent Ilia, who is beloved by the town's sailors and unable to see the ugliness in Greek tragedies like "Medea." Mercouri, in her star-making role, really turns on the charm, making "Never on Sunday" a vivacious, bonafide Grecian delight.

Ayyyy....OPA!!!!!!!!!.......2007-05-22

Purchased this and Zorba the Greek to help remind me of my time living in Crete. They both represent the joy and exuberence with which the Greeks and Cretans live. In Never On Sunday, the pragmatic Homer tries to "better" Illia by having her conform to post-Greco-Roman empire Western ideals. What he fails to realize, is that the pure beauty and essence of truth is what makes Illia tick to begin with. She represents a desire and quest for things "epicurian and sensual", but without the baggage of our modern societal morals. It is this living in the moment, without pretense and without malice that captures the spirit of Greece. Homer finally gets it, and is better for it. Eferesto poli ti Illia!

Melina shines in this one.......2007-05-13

Jules Dassin's (wrote, directed and starred)charming b&w portrayal of Melina's tough but kind hearted prostitute, done interestingly, half in Greek and half in English. Her scene with Dimitri Papamichael, as a British sailor "first timer" was priceless. You are better off if you know Greek or someone can translate, the subtitles lose something in the translation. Racy in 1960, relatively tame now, Dassin manages to capture the Greece of a simpler time using extensive on location shooting, ala his "Naked City", the movie, not the later TV series. It is a shame Dassin was blacklisted in the 50's and had to go to Europe to work.

"The Last Greek Goddess", .......2007-03-28

Melina Mercouri, "The Last Greek Goddess", stars in the comedy "Never on Sunday"(1960) directed/written by Jules Dassin. She plays Illia, the most sensuous and radiant "lady of the night" in the seaport Pyres where every man adores her and she is the one who chooses her partners. Mercouri was 40 years old when she played Illia but she did not hide a single day of her age and she was gorgeous, full of the inner fire and absolutely irresistible. When the new Pygmalion, the intellectual American named Homer (of course) sails into the town and meets Illia, he decides that his search for meaning of life would end in Pyres if he would reform Illia and make her change her way of life. With all his intellect and education he couldn't understand a very simple truth about Illia - only true love might change her. Homer played by director/writer Jules Dassin is the weakest part of this mostly charming comedy. I agree with one of the IMDb commenters who said that "Jules Dassin has directed a great movie but he should have hired an actor to play Homer, and not played it himself... A better actor might have found a way around the rough spots but Dassin magnifies them." I guess that in real life Dassin was much more charming that in the film because he and Mercouri were married in 1966 and stayed married until her death in 1994.

Never on sunday.......2007-03-09

Recomand to every one who is inlove.one of the best love story.

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Great Movie.
Wonderful independent film
The most emotionally confusing movie ever
Excellent Classic 1969 Film; Moving, Funny, Relevant
GREAT MOVIE

Popi
Starring: Alan Arkin , Rita Moreno , Miguel Alejandro , Reuben Figueroa , and John Harkins
Director: Arthur Hiller
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ASIN: B000089732
Release Date: 2003-04-01

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A Golden Globe-nominated*, lustrous performance by Alan Arkin highlights [this] well-done ethnic comedy-drama (Blockbuster Entertainment Guide) about an eccentric father with an outrageous scheme to give his sons a better life. Arkin is 'superb (Los Angeles Times) as Abraham, a single Puerto Rican father struggling to raise his two sons. But as he watches his boys slide deeper into the ghetto, Abraham seizes on an outlandish plan to give his boys a better life: He sets them adrift in a boat off the Florida coast, hoping that they will be rescued and raised by a wealthy family! But when his kids are taken in by the authorities and he is declared an unfit father, Abraham takes a courageous standrisking everythingfor the chance to hold on to the one thing he loves themost his family. *1969

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Great Movie........2007-02-12

Good acting. The kids were great.
Need more movies like this
Great movie for whole family.
Enjoyed it.

Wonderful independent film.......2007-01-15

Alan Arkin is stunning as a Spanish Harlem father of two pre-teenage boys - this film was made years before the Elian Gonzales event, and I'm sure you can find the plot elsewhere- but this is a warm, insightful and at times biting movie that becomes poignant as well. Rita Moreno is fine in a supporting role, but the film belongs to Arkin, one of the finest underrated American actors.

The most emotionally confusing movie ever.......2004-11-23

Popi is about a Puerto Rican widower named Abraham living in Manhatten with his two sons Junior and Luis. They live in an impoverished high-crime neighborhood. He works 60 hours a week doing blue collar jobs and gets 5 hours sleep per night. He wants to get his sons out of the neighborhood with a plan of faking their arrival on Miami Beach as escapen refugees from Cuba, hence getting nationwide attention and potential adoption to wealthier families. Once his sons get cruelly bullied by fellow neighborhood kids, Abraham finally decides to implement his plan. It works at first and all eyes in the US are on the two boys. But at the end, they virtually throw all possibilities of adoption and a better life away and reveal their identity to stay with their Popi, their father.

I love this movie and classify it as one of my all-time favorites. It is the most emotionally confusing movie I have ever seen. It is both sad, happy, and funny in one. The ending is one of the most funny, sad, and happy endings I have ever seen. In the movie, you sympathize with Abraham for living in impoverished conditions with his kids, working his fanny off, and just wanting a better life for them. Yet, at the end, the movie proves one of the most important messages in life: no money in the world can replace the love of family.

Excellent Classic 1969 Film; Moving, Funny, Relevant.......2003-01-22

This great classic film from the 1960s stars Alan Arkin as Abraham, a Puerto Rican widower living in Spanish Harlem with 2 sons. Directed by Arthur Hiller and Written by Lester and Tina Pine the film depicts life in a New York slum as unbearable enough for Abraham to come up with a scheme that is funny, moving, and takes a great satirical swipe at anti-Communism. Though his sons like where they live, and Lupe (Rita Moreno) wants to marry Abraham, he has a better idea: cast his sons out to sea in Miami and have them pretend to be Cuban refugees.

This is excellent satire, as the "whole free world" comes to the aid of the sons....as long as they're Cubans and not Puerto Ricans (US citizens), not to mention Haitians.

Dominic Frontiere provides the catchy film score, and I doubt he had any say in the absolutely terrible lyrics (at the film's end).

Arkin's performance is great and emotional, and there is a realism to the film in spite of the satire (then again the whole Elian Gonzalez thing actually happened, didn't it). My advice for all who love top quality acting and filmmaking is see this one.

GREAT MOVIE.......2003-01-20

I LOVED THIS MOVIE IN MY YOUTH IN THE 70'S AND HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR IT FOR MANY YEARS. I WAS SO GLAD TO FIND IT HERE !
I LIKE THE NOSTOLGIC 1960'S NEW YORK CITY FEEL TO THIS MOVIE.
THIS MOVIE HAS A HAPPY ENDING TO ME, BECUASE THE TWO BOYS HAVE THEIR SAY IN WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED OUT OF THERE LIVES. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES AND ARE ON THEIR WAY TO COMMING OF AGE NICELY, . ITS A FEEL GOOD FILM ABOUT LOVE, REALLY.

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Desperation Highway
Starring: Michael Mauro; Popi Ardissone; Jonathan Abrahams
Director: Matthew Ross
Manufacturer: Peacock Films
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B0001F3T2A
Release Date: 2003-03-03

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An Emotionally charged thriller where three young people become the unwilling victims of a fourths obsession. A troubled Sheriff Randall pursues the trail of an unknown assailant who attempted to kill Jane Ellen, a young Goshen woman.. her childhood friend Tom Lindland, accompanied by his buddy Jeff, heads west, running from memories of youthful tragedy, only be be confronted with a far greater terror than he ever imagined.

Desperation Highway: Christmad Greeting Card: Happy Holidays

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Desperation Highway: Christmad Greeting Card: Happy Holidays
Starring: Popi Ardissone
Director: Matthew Ross
Manufacturer: AFA Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000BUK856

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Back Cover: Christmas is for children. Fortunately, there's a child in all of us. Have a joyful Christmas and Happy Newyear.

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