LWLies 74: Isle of Dogs

Wes Ander­son and us go way back – all the way back, in fact, to the very begin­ning. In 2005 The Life Aquat­ic with Steve Zis­sou graced the cov­er of our very first issue, and two years lat­er the writer/director’s fol­low-up fea­ture, The Dar­jeel­ing Lim­it­ed, fol­lowed suit. Now, a decade and some 60 issues on, we’re extra excit­ed to take you inside Anderson’s sub­lime lat­est, Isle of Dogs.

On the cover…

Our very own Oliv­er Stafford is the human behind the bold cov­er of our 74^th issue, which is inspired not only by Anderson’s film but also Japan­ese graph­ic design.

Art­work inside the issue…

New­ly com­mis­sioned illus­tra­tions by Lau­rène Boglio, Simon Hayes, Sophie Mo, Jason Ngai, Andrés Lozano, Sharm Muru­giah, Luke Brookes, Jaime Jacob and Mon­i­ca Baren­go.

In this issue…

Wes’s Mov­ing Cas­tle
Wes Ander­son tells the sto­ry of how his stag­ger­ing stop-motion opus, came to life. With assists from Jason Schwartz­man, Roman Cop­po­la, Eri­ca Dorn and Andy Gent.

A Short But Vital His­to­ry of Movie Dogs
Your indis­pendible visu­al primer to cinema’s most mag­nif­i­cent mutts.

Dog Gone
A spe­cial report from one of Europe’s old­est dog cemeteries.

Wel­come to Dogville
A small suite of clas­sic-era come­dies fea­tured dogs in all the lead roles. We tell the strange sto­ry of the Dogville shorts.

The Age of Mir­a­cles
Michael Leader looks at the cur­rent state of fea­ture ani­ma­tion and asks 10 pan­elists for their pre­dic­tions regard­ing its future.

Threads #6
Christi­na Newland’s reg­u­lar col­umn con­sid­ers the dog col­lar and its place in cel­lu­loid history.

In the back section…

Sophie Monks Kauf­man talks to Claire Denis about roman­tic games­man­ship ahead of her won­der­ful Let the Sun­shine In. Star-in-the-mak­ing Jessie Buck­ley chats to Han­nah Wood­head about her break­through role in Beast. Anya Tay­lor-Joy and Olivia Cooke tell David Jenk­ins about the process of play­ing nasty for the fan­tas­tic Thor­ough­breds. Moroc­can- born French direc­tor Robin Campil­lo dis­cuss­es 120 Beats Per Minute with Manuela Laz­ic. And Vales­ka Grise­bach sits down with David Jenk­ins to dis­sect her sen­su­al, rus­tic dra­ma Western.

Plus… We’ve got reviews of all the lat­est releas­es com­ing your way in March/​April, and Nick Pinker­ton remem­bers Japan’s first ever ani­mat­ed fea­ture, the sim­ply mag­i­cal Momatoro’s Divine Sea Warriors.

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