los angeles cinema wes anderson interview by OLIVIER ZAHM portraits by TAKASHI HOMMA at the Old Imperial bar in Tokyo No one in the cinema world today knows more about its history and the best actors than American auteur filmmaker Wes Anderson. He left New York and Los Angeles for Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés to live in the epicenter of the French Nouvelle Vague. His new animated film, Isle of Dogs, is his first work to be so openly political, denouncing the global rise of fascism, ostracism, and environmental destruction. OLIVIER ZAHM — Let’s start with your movie Isle of Dogs. It’s a stop-motion animation film, and you’ve been working on this project for a long time, yes? WES ANDERSON — We started writing the script about five years ago. Then we started storyboarding and designing the movie about three years ago. We started shooting it about two years ago. OLIVIER ZAHM — And…