2) Isle Of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson)
When I heard in a behind the scenes segment that EVERYTHING in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs was a product of stop-motion animation, I went back and saw it again. This time, an already amazing movie became as beautiful a piece of art as I’d ever seen. Among the already impressive design of and technology behind its many dogs, weather and water patterns solidify Anderson’s flawless attention to detail, and make his and his team’s effort impossible to ignore.
The story, following a Japanese boy trying to find his dog amidst a nationwide canine exile, is sweet, and the dogs, voiced with another Anderson-caliber cast including Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Murray, among others, are adorable. Isle of Dogs is like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
Published: Jan 9, 2019 01:30 pm