Italian director Alessandro Rak ('The Art of Happiness') and three colleagues directed 'Cinderella the Cat,' an animated update of the fairytale, aimed at adults. By Boyd van Hoeij The classic ...

Passed orally from one continent to another, the first literary edition of Cinderella the Cat was written by Giambattista Basile in Naples in 1636 – a crude and bloody version. The film is based on ...

With its slick, creative animation and enjoyable tunes, “Cinderella the Cat” is one of the best Italian animated films of recent years. Slick, creative animation and largely enjoyable music make ...

The Italian animated feature “Cinderella the Cat” uses little more than the title of Giambattista Basile’s 17th century version of the Cinderella story. The title character is reduced to a minor, ...

The 1940s were no fairytale for Walt Disney. With a war waging, many Americans didn’t have the appetite, the heart or the dollars to go to a “picture show.” Hollywood was also worried about a new ...