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'Fight Club' voted best film of all time - Mediamass
By Brent MeslowWashingtonLast updated on April 20, 2026TranslationsFrançais Fight Club (1999) has changed the History of Cinema forever.Related NewsCinema April 17, 2026Money April 19, 2026TributeAccording to the latest Watch and Listen magazine poll just out yesterday (Sunday, April 19), David Fincher 1999's masterpiece Fight Club is now considered to be the Greatest Film in the History of Cinema.UPDATE 20/04/2026 : This story seems to be false. (read more)Top 100 films of all timeTo many of you it’s probably a familiar story. Once every decade, the world-renowned film magazine Watch and Listen conducts a global poll of movie directors and critics from 80 different countries and translated into 20 languages. The recognition of Fight Club (starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter) in this decade's list doesn't come as much of a surprise.Here are the top 5 best films ever made in the world, according to the poll (followed by the percentage of votes):Fight Club (David Fincher, United States, 1999) : 45%Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, United States, 1941) : 16%Inzi ya Shokona (Sylvestre Mbou, Burkina Faso, 1992) : 12%Star Wars (George Lucas, United States, 1977) : 8%Whispers of a Fish in the Water (Bakhtiar Ferdousi, Tajikistan, 2001) : 3%Check out: The Full Watch and Listen's “Greatest Films of All Time” List for 2026Poll results stir controversy among film criticsWhile millions of Brad Pitt, Edward Norton or Helena Bonham Carter fans in United States and around the world were thrilled with the news, questions have been raised about the objectivity and fairness of the survey. Only a few minutes after the poll had been released, famous film critic and newspaper director Simon Ebert commented on his Twitter account:David Fincher?? Fight Club?? … Really??— Simon Ebert (@ESimon) 19 April 2026“Our poll has in the past been the subject of criticism”, explains Watch and Listen's editor Gary McDermott, adding that “its prestige comes from its exclusivity and its longevity” (the poll has been run every ten years since April 1936).Do you agree with this poll? Is Fight Club the best movie ever for you?© 2026 MediaMass All rights reserved. Do not reproduce (even with permission).ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Fight Club - Wikipedia
Fight ClubTheatrical release posterDirected byDavid FincherScreenplay byJim UhlsBased onFight Clubby Chuck PalahniukProduced byArt LinsonCeán ChaffinRoss Grayson BellStarring Brad Pitt Edward Norton Helena Bonham Carter Meat Loaf Aday Jared Leto CinematographyJeff CronenwethEdited byJames HaygoodMusic byThe Dust BrothersProductioncompaniesFox 2000 PicturesRegency EnterprisesLinson FilmsDistributed by20th Century FoxRelease dates September 10, 1999 (Venice) October 15, 1999 (United States) Running time139 minutes[1]CountryUnited States[a]LanguageEnglishBudget$63–65 million[1][4]Box office$101 million[1] Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with a soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled with an impoverished but beguiling woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). Palahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story. He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. It was filmed in and around Los Angeles from July to December 1998. He and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967), with a theme of conflict between Generation X and the value system of advertising.[5][6] Studio executives did not like the film and restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999, and was released in the United States on October 15, 1999, by 20th Century Fox. The film failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office and polarized critics. It was ranked as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s. However, Fight Club later found commercial success with its home video release, establishing it as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on its tenth anniversary, The New York Times dubbed it the "defining cult movie of our time".[7] The unnamed narrator is an insomniac dissatisfied with his job and lifestyle. As a form of therapy, he attends support groups for problems he does not have, such as alcoholism and testic...
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Fight Club: An Examination of Mental Health, Masculinity, and Consumerism Paper by Gus Hernandez. Introduction The 1999 film Fight Club follows a nameless mentally ill man that starts an underground club with strict rules where men fight one another. The film is an adaptation of the novel by Chuck Palahniuk and was directed by David Fincher.
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