Though Oscar buzz is present at Telluride, a love for the craft shines through
TELLURIDE, Colo. _ The Telluride Film Festival prides itself on being unlike bigger, glitzier festivals. The atmosphere is decidedly low-key and intimate, with neither the deal-making frenzy of Sundance nor the black-tie glamour of Cannes. There are no red carpets, no juries doling out awards. Most of the venues aren't even actual movie theaters _ one is a middle school gym, another is an ice-skating rink and yet another is the town's Masonic Hall.
"You think it's a festival and it's going to just feel like a festival, but it doesn't," said Angelina Jolie, who attended the Rocky Mountain festival over Labor Day weekend for the first time to screen her latest directorial effort, the wrenching Cambodian genocide drama "First They Killed My Father." "It's a
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