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Amid speculation about the future, Berlinale 2018 opens with energetic stop-motion animation Isle of Dogs

It felt a bit like déjà vu. Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs to kick off the Berlinale. The festival may not have opened with an animated film before, but it is the second time in four years that Wes Anderson gets to kick off. While The Grand Budapest Hotel was not animation, it was one of those bizarre, typical Anderson worlds. Just like, incidentally, before that, the Roald Dahl-based stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr. Fox. With four films now premiering in Berlin,...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

It felt a bit like déjà vu. Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs to kick off the Berlinale. The festival may not have opened with an animated film before, but it is the second time in four years that Wes Anderson gets to kick off. While The Grand Budapest Hotel was not animation, it was one of those bizarre, typical Anderson worlds. Just like, incidentally, before that, the Roald Dahl-based stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr. Fox. With four films now premiering in Berlin,...

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