Rip Van Winkle

Nov 20, 1978

0h 27m

★ 5.0

Overview

Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Billy Budd Films

Will Vinton Studios

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Will Geer

Rip Van Winkle (voice)

Tim Conner

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6.6

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6.5

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6.2

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6.4

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6.3

Adam

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5.4

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6.6

Why Man Creates

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0.0

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5.7

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5.8

Hen, His Wife

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Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.

5.8

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Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Rip Van Winkle

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