Six years after the release of Jordan Peele’s second movie Us, the film is returning to the big screen courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center in NYC, Indiewire reports this morning. Taking place from June 20 – June 26, the festival “The Other America: A Cosmology of Jordan Peele’s Us” will feature a special screening […]
Six years after the release of Jordan Peele’s second movie Us, the film is returning to the big screen courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center in NYC, Indiewire reports this morning.
Taking place from June 20 – June 26, the festival “The Other America: A Cosmology of Jordan Peele’s Us” will feature a special screening of Peele’s personal 35mm print!
Indiewire details, “The Opening Night presentation has a two-for-one 35mm double feature of Us with Oscar Micheaux’s silent film Body and Soul, which will feature live grand piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura. Shana L. Redmond, the Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, and Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor in NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, will take part in a conversation after the screenings.”
The festival program includes screenings of other films such as 1984’s C.H.U.D., Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Donnie Darko, Dead Ringers, Nightbreed, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
You can see the full lineup and learn more over on Indiewire.
Us is set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline and stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway.
Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family.
After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
