Fight Club

Director: David Fincher, David Fincher

1999 / 139min / DCP

Strange as it may seem, a quarter century ago a major American studio was willing to finance a movie that proposed that blowing up the corporate headquarters of credit card companies might in fact be a very good thing. Fight Club, Fincher’s bravura adaptation of writer Chuck Palahniuk’s anti-establishment novel of the same name, was a box-office disappointment back then, but today the rollickingly funny film about the seduction of cubicle drone Edward Norton by Brad Pitt’s charismatic anarchist Tyler Durden needs be recognized as the cult film of the ’90s, and a still-stunning act of cinematic vandalism.