Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Charlene Lydon and Alex Towers, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, continuing our Summer of ’99 season, David Fincher’s Fight Club.
1999 was a great year for movies, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that would define cinema for a next generation: Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, American Beauty, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Matrix. The Summer of ’99 season offers a trip through the year in film on the IMDb‘s 250.
A successful young insurance claims adjuster finds himself comfortable existence literally blown to pieces after two chance encounters: first with his unlikely kindred spirit Marla Singer and then with charismatic anarchist Tyler Durden. However, what initially seems liberating quickly escalates into something that is much less comfortable.
At time of recording, it was ranked 10th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Note: Despite the promise at the end of the episode, the entry of both Joker and Capernaum on to the list forced a slight schedule realignment. The Summer of ’99 will be going on hiatus until early next year. Instead, next week we’ll have Jason Coyle and Ronan Doyle discussing Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum.
- Recorded 31st August 2019.
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- Bob Harris at Mother Jones offers an immediate reaction to the Columbine massacre, April 1999.
- Dave Cullen at Slate on the causes of Columbine, April 2004.
- Dennis Lim at The New York Times on the on-going fight over Fight Club, November 2009.
- Brian Raftery at The Ringer discusses the making of Fight Club, March 2019.
- Chuck Palahniuk talks to The Guardian about the evolution and resonance of Fight Club, July 2018.
- Michael Sragow at CNN looks at the production and development of Fight Club, October 1999.
- Caludia Eller at The Los Angeles Times on the contemporary controversies around the release of Fight Club, October 1999.
- Robert Dominguez at The New York Daily News on the controversy around the violence of Fight Club, October 1999.
- Brian Mockenhaupt at Esquire profiles David Fincher, March 2007.
- Molly Lambert at Grantland takes a look at the filmography of David Fincher, October 2014.
- Edward Norton discusses making Fight Club with The Telegraph, April 2003.
- Steve Bannon likens the Breitbart Newsroom to Fight Club in The New York Times, January 2018.
- Paulie Doyle at Vice on how Fight Club became a beacon to the alt-right, January 2017.
- Jared Richards at Junkee on whether Fight Club has been ruined by its fans, February 2019.
- Megan Koester at Vice describes Fight Club as “the reddit of movies”, August 2014.
- Scaachi Koul at BuzzFeed looks at the state of the pick-up artist community, September 2018.
- Chuck Palahniuk talks to The Independent about his work, June 2012.
- Chuck Palahniuk discusses the importance of second fathers with The Los Angeles Times, June 2015.
- Meat Loaf talks to Stuff about his fat suit on Fight Club, May 2013.
- Starbucks in Fight Club attempts to document every coffee cup in Fight Club, December 2011.
- “Beer Run”, February 2005.
- Chuck Palahniuk discusses his early life with Rolling Stone, June 2005.
- Chuck Palahniuk explains his worldview to The Guardian, November 2014.
- “Fight Club: PSAs”, October 1999.
- Chuck Palahniuk discusses the absurdity of trying to market Fight Club with CNN, October 1999.
- Vince Mancini at Uproxx on Fred Durst and John Travolta’s The Fanatic, September 2019.
- Clayton Purdom at The A.V. Club on the use of Fred Durst in the Fight Club video game, October 2017.
- Ginia Bellafante at The New York Times on Fight Club-influenced fashion, January 2000.
- Stephen Schaefer at Mr. Showbiz on the challenges of trying to sell Fight Club, October 1999.
- Nathan Rabin at The A.V. Club likens Fight Club to “a bile-filled adolescent”, October 1999.
- Ryan Lamble at Den of Geek looks at the contemporary response to Fight Club, October 2014.
- Scott Tobias at The A.V. Club on Fight Club as an artifact of the late nineties, September 2008.
- Claudia Eller and James Bates at The Los Angeles Times report on the departure of Bill Mechanic from Fox, June 2000.
- Rick Lyman at The New York Times reports on Fox attempting to find its place in the early twenty-first century cinematic landscape, June 2000.
- Cam Wolf at GQ on how Jared Leto brought his own head to the Met Ball, May 2019.
- Rebecca Renner at LitHub offers an anti-capitalist reading of Fight Club, July 2019.
- The Hansons discuss the production of Mmmbop with The Guardian, April 2018.
- Jordan Pearson at Vice offers a brief history of Kirk’s double-fisted punch, September 2017.
- Bim Adewunmi at The New Statesman on the television nudity double standard, August 2013.
- The New York Times reports on real-life fight clubs as an alternative to gun violence, January 2016.
- The Washington Times reports on plans for Fight Club-inspired bombing of Starbucks, July 2009.
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