Wes Anderson Explains How Hayao Miyazaki Influenced ‘Isle Of Dogs’

While the films of Wes Anderson are marked by his impeccable eye for framing and design, but bubbling beneath the surface are a wide variety of influences.

From the original stories that emerged during the heyday of 1970s America cinema in pictures by Robert Altman, Hal Ashby and Bob Rafelson, to Francois Truffaut’s tender and emotional films, Anderson works them all into something uniquely his own.For his upcoming, stop-motion animated “Isle Of Dogs,” the filmmaker credits another director with stoking the fires of inspiration: Hayao Miyazaki.

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