Escape From New York (1981), directed by John Carpenter, Shout! Factory 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, three commentary tracks, and subtitles in English and French.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340

Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 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 : You guys like John Carpenter, I've noticed, so here's some more for you. One of the essential 80s sci-fi action films, and very modern for being from 1981, it brings together a hell of a cast, with Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton, and motherfucking Isaac Hayes all stretching their legs. It's fun, fast-paced, and pretty damn cynical, with Carpenter's hate for cops, politicians, and general authority figures on full display, but it also has some emotional moments as the good guys get picked off one by one in more or less tragic and senseless ways. Its influence can't be overstated, being important in the late 70s/early 80s wave of dystopian and/or postapocalyptic action thrillers, inspiring a bunch of knockoffs, many of them unsurprisingly Italian, as well as a specific line inspiring William Gibson's Neuromancer (if you're familiar, you'll pick it up), and the main character inspiring, well, a certain batshit insane Japanese gentleman.

In the distant future of 1997, Manhattan has been turned into a walled prison where criminals roam free and do what they want inside, but are ruthlessly slaughtered if they try to escape. This seems to work out ok for everyone on the outside, until Air Force One is hijacked by a terrorist, and since the president is Donald Pleasence instead of Harrison Ford, he ends up in the hands of the criminals who rule Manhattan. One-eyed former special forces operator and now criminal Snake Plissken is sent in to get him out, with a hard time limit of 24 hours before tiny bombs implanted in his neck kill him. Inside the anarchic prison colony, he teams up with a bunch of misfits to track down the president, but must face off with the tyrannical Duke, who rules everything with an iron fist (and the best pimped up car ever seen).

This 4k remaster is quite good, but it managed to both be a little grainy and slightly lacking in fine detail, and the high contrast on such a dark film means the blacks are a little crushed. Still, not much to worry about, the 5.1 remaster is nice and clean, and as usual the commentary tracks are quite interesting, especially the one with Carpenter and Russell.

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