Shaft 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray brings Gordon Parks’s groundbreaking 1971 thriller roaring into modern clarity, following private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) as he stalks the streets of gritty seventies New York. After being hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss, Shaft is pulled into a volatile clash between uptown power players and downtown gangsters. A landmark of the blaxploitation era and a bold expression of Black Power–era style, the film remains iconic for Roundtree’s cool presence, Parks’s kinetic direction, and Isaac Hayes’s legendary funk and soul score.
Film Info
United States
1971
100 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
Spine #1130
Shaft [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray]
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
• Shaft’s Big Score! (1972), the sequel directed by Gordon Parks
• New documentary featuring Rhea L. Combs, Racquel J. Gates, Nelson George, and Shana L. Redmond
• Soul in Cinema: Filming “Shaft” on Location (1971)
• Archival interviews with Gordon Parks, Isaac Hayes, and Richard Roundtree
• New program on Hayes’s score featuring Shana L. Redmond
• New interview with costume designer Joseph G. Aulisi
• New program on the Black detective featuring Kinohi Nishikawa and Walter Mosley
• A Complicated Man: The “Shaft” Legacy (2019)
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Amy Abugo OngiriCover by Bill Sienkiewicz

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