It’s the 60th anniversary of Disney’s Cinderella, so film critic (and founder of House Next Door) Matt Zoller Seitz watched it with his kids (Hannah, 12, and James, 6) and then conversed with his 12 year old daughter via iChat about it. James has some comments as well.
Here’s the transcript. Awesome stuff. I’m with you, Hannah. I wish I had “chore mice”, too.
This is the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. Mary W. took John and me to The Apple Valley Cinema in Smithfield –
I don’t think we saw Rocky VI at that particular cinema, Sheila.
I meant IV
I was gonna say – THERE’S A ROCKY VI????
hahahaha
How old were you when you saw Cinderella?
Gosh – I don’t know. It was Cinderella at #1 and Mary Poppins was #2. I’ll ask John and Mary B! They held tight to the reigns when it came to these kinds of things – I graduated from Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers to Little House – If you recall, The Brady Bunch was too stupid so it was not allowed. Gotta love them.
hahaha I love that their criteria was “this is too stupid”.
And then of course there was The Sunshine Family. Right? Wasn’t that their name?
Oh yes – The Sunshine Family – Because they didn’t want me to get my definition of what is pretty or normal looking from Barbie. As much as I make fun, we were so lucky to be born into what we got!