pippi longstocking Archives

The producers of the Paddington and Paddington 2 are bringing back another beloved children's figure in Pippi Longstocking Based on the works of Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking is an energetic and super strong girl with red pigtails StudioCanal and David Heyman's Heyday Films will be producing the project with the Atrid Lindgren Company, according to[...]

I grew up watching the live action Pippi Longstocking films when they popped up on TV at odd times, and my background was authoritarian enough that I always held my breath to see if I'd be allowed to watch the films, and flinched a little, wondering if any adults around me had noticed, when Pippi[...]

Today's Exhibit: Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata's 1971 adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's iconic children's books featuring precocious pigtailed heroine Pippi Longstocking. In the end, the author decided not to give the filmmakers the rights to make her stories into an animated film, but now we have an idea of what the film may have looked like[...]