Wrestling With Shadows (1998) VHS

Ylen kriitikkokasetti. Dokumenttielokuva Wrestling With Shadows. A Film About Good and Evil (1998), ohjaus: Paul Jay. Pääosassa: Bret ”Hit Man” Hart. Showpainielämää.

In this feature-length documentary, director Paul Jay was given unprecedented access to the world of Bret Hart and pro wrestling as his camera followed Bret "the Hitman" Hart for one year. Going behind the tightly guarded walls of wrestling's spectacle and theatre, the film explores the meaning of today's wrestling morality plays. As fantasy crosses into real life, the true story of Bret Hart's struggle with Vince McMahon, the legendary owner of the WWE, is revealed. Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows climaxes with the tale of the biggest double-cross in pro wrestling.

The film was well received at the time[4] and is today considered to be critically acclaimed.[5] It won numerous film festival awards and has aired several times on both A&E and the Documentary Channel as well as on BBC Two in the United Kingdom; after a 1999 airing on BBC Two, journalist Greg Wood of The Independent described it "a story beautifully told".[6]
Wrestling historian Dave Meltzer has stated that Wrestling with Shadows, together with Beyond the Mat, are the two most critically acclaimed wrestling documentaries.[7] The Canadian film study book North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 declared the film to be one of the best National Film Board documentaries of the period and worthy of John Grierson's mission for the NFB.[8] Jordan Peterson has expressed that the film as one of the greatest documentaries that he had seen in his life, stating that it was "one of the best documentaries about anything ever".[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
The film won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the 1999 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.