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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Books Review

You Do Not Talk About Fight Club by Read Mercer Schuchardt (ed.)

by Derek Beres

[11.Sep.08] :. Using Sartre and superstring theory as a foundation, Vacker adds a voice to the continuation of Palahniuk’s theme, which deals, essentially, with the will to live -- and more importantly, how to live.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

Column: Page Turner

Palahniuk’s Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming

by Savannah Schroll Guz

[21.Mar.07] :. With Fight Club, whether he intended to or not, Palahniuk has shown us that fascism can be created right before our eyes, almost invisibly, and we won’t even see it happening.

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Multimedia Review

Fight Club

by Josh Lee

[3.Feb.05] :. It's thorough blandness renders it impotent, pointless, insignificant.

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Film Review

Fight Club (1999)

by Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman

[14.Oct.99] :. Does capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis.

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