Us

On June 20, Us will screen with Body and Soul beginning at 6pm (followed by a conversation with Shana L. Redmond, 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) and Us beginning at 9:15pm.

On June 22, Us will be proceeded by a post-screening conversation with fashion designer Mary Ping and Mellissa Huber, Associate Curator at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Copies of Us: The Completed Annotated Screenplay will be available for purchase at this event.

A haunted house turned home–invasion thriller stretched to national proportions, Us transforms a family vacation in Santa Cruz into a metaphysical horror of doppelgängers, repression, and class anxiety. When the Wilson family are attacked by their red-jumpsuited doubles—the Tethered—they’re swept into a coordinated uprising emerging from a subterranean labyrinth and government conspiracy. Blending slasher and creature-feature thrills, cultural iconography, and Jungian psychology, Peele crafts a propulsive, frequently hilarious allegory that’s at once genre pop and political provocation, in which the threat isn’t some external invader but our own warped reflection wielding a pair of scissors. Lupita Nyong’o’s astonishingly splintered dual performance anchors a film teeming with mirrored symbols, from rabbit warrens and the eerie symmetry of 11:11 to the sharp line drawn from Reagan-era mythmaking to its 2010s implosion. Us remains a richly layered, destabilizing vision, and Film at Lincoln Center is proud to revive it in a new 35mm print—made to be seen, and reseen, on the big screen. 35mm print courtesy of Jordan Peele’s personal collection.