Shaft (1971) (V2 RM4k CC 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 2.0) Gordon Parks Richard Roundtree Moses Gunn Charles Cioffi Christopher St John Gwenn Mitchell Lawrence Pressman Victor Arnold Sherri Brewer Rex Robbins Camille Yarbrough Margaret Warncke
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Shaft
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Shaft (1971), directed by Gordon Parks, Criterion 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including stereo remaster, original theatrical mono, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067741/
Video encoded in two-pass 14.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : I was never quite happy with my previous encode of this classic, it had some blocking and some other minor issues, so here's a new version, with higher bitrate for both video and audio, improved settings, and slightly tweaked grain reduction.
The film that, along with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, started or at least popularized the Blaxploitation genre, gets a 4k remaster from Criterion, and it's a doozy. Richard Roundtree is suave and cool with infinite swagger, the portrait of early 70s NYC is grimy and gritty, the mob conflict is low-stakes but very well executed, and the soundtrack is of course incredible. An iconic landmark in American genre film. Other cast includes Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, and Christopher St. John.
John Shaft is a private investigator who's got it all under control, until some thugs show up at his office and he ends up throwing one of them out the window. It turns out they were there on the orders of Bumpy Jonas, a Harlem crime boss whose daughter has been kidnapped, apparently by Black radicals, and he'll do anything to get her back. But when Shaft maneuvers his way around the police's investigation and finds an old friend who's involved in radical politics, whose comrades promptly get murdered by unseen assailants with machine guns, it's starting to look like this is about more than just a kidnapped girl.
The Criterion 4k remaster is very nice, clean, contrasty, good color, although it's quite dark, and the blacks are a bit crushed (oppressed by the man, no doubt). It was extremely grainy, so I've applied a light degrain, but there's still plenty of grain left. The remastered stereo sounds fine, as does the original mono track, but it's disappointing that Criterion couldn't be bothered to get anyone to do a commentary track for this.
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Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@High / 14.0 Mb/s / 1920 x 1036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 321 kb/s / 2 channels / Stereo remaster with creative input from Isaac Hayes III / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 241 kb/s / 1 channel / Original theatrical mono / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 9.0 kb/s / English SDH
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Times Square Credits
00:04:26.767 : Looking For Shaft
00:09:19.642 : Office Visitors
00:11:59.219 : Bumpy's Family Matter
00:18:59.722 : Hitting The Streets
00:27:04.706 : Uptown
00:33:41.061 : Neither Judas Nor Tom
00:36:09.292 : Nothing Owed
00:42:35.803 : Looks Like War
00:45:26.682 : Money Matters
00:48:50.302 : Tending Bar
00:57:23.065 : Money Matters
01:04:34.204 : Arrangements
01:13:05.381 : Caffe Reggio
01:16:24.663 : 24 Hours To Deal
01:26:27.307 : New Hired Help
01:36:06.469 : Outta There
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