Fight Club (1999 Josh’s Pick)

Awesome Movie Year

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features Josh’s personal pick, David Fincher’s Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Jim Uhls (based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk) and starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter and Meat Loaf, Fight Club was a commercial and critical disappointment but has since become a cult classic.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fight-club-1999), Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/15/movies/film-review-such-a-very-long-way-from-duvets-to-danger.html), and David Ansen in Newsweek (https://www.newsweek.com/fistful-darkness-168314).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring our foreign film pick, Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run.