Now on Criterion

The Criterion blu ray and 4k just came out today. I picked up the 2 disc blu ray edition today. It has some nice special features on it and the cover is pretty groovy looking. Here are the details:

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!

Anyone else plan on getting the Shaft?