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Shaft (1971) - Criterion Collection

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Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman
Director: Gordon Parks
Plot Synopsis:

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree's sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes.

Special Features:

  • NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
  • Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III
  • Shaft's Big Score!, the 1972 follow-up to Shaft by director Gordon Parks
  • New documentary on the making of Shaft featuring curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana L. Redmond
  • Behind-the-scenes program featuring Parks, actor Richard Roundtree, and musician Isaac Hayes
  • Archival interviews with Hayes, Parks, and Roundtree
  • New interview with costume designer Joseph G. Aulisi
  • New program on the Black detective and the legacy of John Shaft, featuring scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and novelist Walter Mosley
  • A Complicated Man: The "Shaft" Legacy (2019)
  • Behind-the-scenes footage from Shaft's Big Score!
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri
  • Release Details
    Release Date: June 21st, 2022
    MPAA Rating: R
    Movie Release Year: 1971
    Release Country: United States
    Movie Studio: Criterion
  • Technical Specs
    Length:100 Minutes
    Specs:Blu-ray Disc
    Video Resolution/Codec:1080p AVC/MPEG-4
    Aspect Ratio(s):1.85:1
    Audio Formats:English: LPCM Mono
    English: LPCM 2.0 Stereo
    Subtitles/Captions:English SDH
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