About nine years ago my film agent, Michael Siegel in Los Angeles, rang me and said, "There's somebody who keeps knocking at the door for Fantastic Mr Fox,"' she recalls. 'I said, "Do you think we ...

Wes Anderson's feature-length animation Fantastic Mr Fox, which opens the London Film Festival, cunningly recreates the real world of the story's author, Roald Dahl. In a cavernous warehouse studio in ...