Ce livre est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition inaugurale 2021 à l'Academy Museum of Motion Pictures de Los Angeles, en collaboration avec le Studio Ghibli de Tokyo. Il présente des centaines de matériaux de production originaux, principalement un très grand nombre de dessins, et des oeuvres d'art jamais vues auparavant en dehors des archives du Studio Ghibli. Croquis de travail, dessins de personnages, storyboards, mises en page, arrière-plans et films de production de ses débuts de carrière à travers ses 11 longs métrages, y compris Mon Voisin Totoro (1988), Kiki la Petite Sorcière (1989), Princesse Mononoké (1997), Le Voyage de Chihiro ( 2001) et Le Château Ambulant (2004), offrent un aperçu du processus créatif de Miyazaki et de ses techniques d'animation.
"A colossal cinematic achievement" --Richard Brody, the New Yorker
A masterpiece of identity horror and a dark reflection on America's past and present, Us presents chilly atmospherics, psychological torment and old-world suspense-building plot twists. Whereas Get Out was considered more a mixture of drama and suspense, Peele leaned fully into the horror genre with his sophomore film, using urban legends such as doppelgangers to tease out the uniquely American perceptions of xenophobia and "othering." Critic Monica Castillo wrote of the film: "Us is another thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country is still too afraid to bring up. Peele wants us to talk, and he's given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition."
Published in conjunction with the fifth anniversary of the critically acclaimed film's release, this companion paperback features Oscar(R)-winning director Jordan Peele's screenplay, alternate endings and deleted scenes, and is richly illustrated with over 150 stills from the motion picture. Specially commissioned annotations by hannah baer, Theaster Gates, Jamieson Webster, Jared Sexton, Mary Ping, Shana Redmond and Leila Taylor present a cosmology of images, definitions and inspirations that extend the themes of the film. Continuing in the legacy of 1960s paperbacks that documented the era's most significant avant-garde films--such as Kurosawa's Rashomon, Godard's Masculin Féminin and Antonioni's L'Avventura--Us is an indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of this important film.
Jordan Peele (born 1979) is a writer, actor and filmmaker who rose to fame as half of the comedy duo Key & Peele. He has written and directed three feature films: Get Out (2017), Us (2019) and Nope (2022). He was the first Black screenwriter to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Avec un essai de l'auteur et chercheur Tananarive Due et des annotations détaillées du réalisateur, cette publication est richement illustrée avec plus de 150 images fixes du film et présente des fins alternatives, des scènes supprimées ainsi qu'un regard intérieur sur les concepts et l'arrière-plan de la production du film. Poursuivant l'héritage des livres de poche des années 1960 qui documentaient les films d'avant-garde les plus significatifs de l'époque, tels que Rashomon d'Akira Kurosawa, Masculin / Feminin de Jean-Luc Godard et L'Avventura de Michelangelo Antonioni sont un guide indispensable de ce film révolutionnaire.
