Shaft: The Criterion Collection

Summary

A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory, the film has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is given Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 27th June 2022 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Cast

Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, ictor Arnold

Director

Gordon Parks

Producer

Joel Freeman

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

1 hour 40 minutes

Release date

27/06/2022

Hash Tag

#Shaft #CriterionCollection

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While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) 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 (Embassy's 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 (Amazing Grace's 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.

Shaft is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 27th June 2022 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
An essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

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