Shaft
Blu-ray - 2022
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, 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 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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Action and adventure films
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.
Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman.
Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio)
Special features include: Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III; Shaft's big score, the sequel to Shaft; new documentaryfeaturingg Rhea L. Combs, Racquel J. gates, Nelson George and Shana L. Redmond; Soul in Cinema: Filming "Shaft"; Archival interviews with Parks, Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree; new program on Hayes's score; new interview with Joseph G. Aulisi; new program on the Black detective featuring Scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and Walter Mosley; A Complicated Man: The "Shaft" legacy; essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray; Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
- Audience
- Rating: R.
- Production Credits
- Music, Isaac Hayes, J.J. Johnson ; director of photography, Urs Furrer ; editor, Hugh A. Robertson.
- ISBN
- 9781681439433
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