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Welcome to The Best Movie You Never Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was either before it’s time and/or has aged like a fine wine. This week we’ll be looking at Peter Weir’s Fearless! The Story: After surviving a horrific plane crash, Max Klein finds that his life is no longer the same. Unable to connect...

Deadline Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke is writing from on-scene reports. The winners are named at 2013 WGA Awards (Live). There will be an update to this post on Monday morning: New York City… Refresh for latest… The 65th Annual Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony tonight honored outstanding achievement in writing in film, television, radio, new media, and other awards categories. The presentation at the B.B. King Blues Club was supposed to go on simultaneously with the Los Angeles ceremony but in fact beat Wgaw by an hour. Which meant that East Coast knew the winners first and ruined the evening’s suspense. The Wgae paid tribute to the late legendary author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron as well as presenting several honorary and service awards. Screenwriter and director David Koepp was the recipient of the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The award, established in 1992, honors a WGA member for...

Deadline Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke is writing from on-scene reports. The winners are named at 2013 WGA Awards (Live). There will be an update to this post on Monday morning: New York City… Refresh for latest… The 65th Annual Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony tonight honored outstanding achievement in writing in film, television, radio, new media, and other awards categories. The presentation at the B.B. King Blues Club was supposed to go on simultaneously with the Los Angeles ceremony but in fact beat Wgaw by an hour. Which meant that East Coast knew the winners first and ruined the evening’s suspense. The Wgae paid tribute to the late legendary author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron as well as presenting several honorary and service awards. Screenwriter and director David Koepp was the recipient of the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The award, established in 1992, honors a WGA member for...

Richard Kind, who plays screenwriter Max Klein in the Oscar-nominated Argo, will host the 65th Annual WGA Awards‘ New York ceremony, set for February 17 at B.B. King Blues Club. Among the presenters are Beasts Of The Southern Wild co-writer Lucy Alibar, Sleepwalk With Me writer-director and comedian Mike Birbiglia, Bobby Cannavale, David Chase, comedian and talk show host W. Kamau Bell, The Simpsons writer Mike Reiss and Girls co-star Allison Williams. The event will be held simultaneously with the WGA Awards’ West Coast ceremony, which Nathan Fillion is hosting at the Jw Marriott La Live.

Directed by: Peter Weir

Written by: Rafael Yglesias

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez

Genre: Drama

Year: 1993

It’s difficult for humans to orient their lives within the context of their lives reaching an end, as if death were not an actuality but an inconvenience. Fearless asks how a person can live after stepping back from the precipice.

Jeff Bridges lends his warm affect to the role of Max Klein, an architect who survives a plane crash. Our first image of him is walking calmly through a cornfield, a baby in his arms and a child clasping his hand. Dubbed “The Good Samaritan” by the media, we are told of how Max led the survivors out of the fuselage and to safety.

He’s no hero, though, but a man reawakened. Not just rejuvenated but reborn. The prickly trivialities of his profession no longer bother him, his allergy to strawberries has miraculously vanished,...

Actor Jeff Bridges has enjoyed an impressive big-screen career playing a broad range of characters from the President of the United States to an alien, and yet he is often called one of the most underrated actors of his time. For his acclaimed role as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit," Bridges is nominated for an Oscar for the sixth time -- he won Best Actor last year for "Crazy Heart."

Get to know one of America's favorite stars!

Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:

Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]

I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander...