Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

By PopMatters Staff

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. [22 June 2007]

Fight Club (1999)

By Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman

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. [14 October 1999]

Consuming Consumables: Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition

Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition - 20th Century Fox [$34.99] [23 November 2009]

Short Ends and Leader: “This is Jack’s Post-Modern Masterpiece” - Fight Club (1999): Blu-ray