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It takes almost a day to get here, you don’t know what movies you’ll see until you arrive, and almost everybody, no matter how famous, has to wait in lines — long lines.
But those idiosyncrasies are part of what makes the Telluride Film Festival so distinct and so original.
Running over Labor Day weekend, the festival has premiered several recent best picture winners, including “Argo,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and last year’s “12 Years a Slave.”
This year, the festival is set to premiere "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, the set-in-Iran drama “Rosewater.” Also screening is “Wild," an adaptation of the bestselling book starring Reese Witherspoon as a hiker searching for meaning and comfortable boots on the Pacific Crest Trail.
As the festival kicked off in the Colorado resort town, we caught up with Xavier Dolan, the 25-year-old writer and director of “Mommy," a French-Canadian drama about a single mother raising a son who is struggling with bipolar disorder, and likely to be a contender for the foreign language Oscar.