Of all the panels and Q&As happening during this year’s Telluride Film Festival , probably the most anticipated one featured a visit from rock royalty in the form of an unbilled (but not terribly secret) appearance by Bruce Springsteen in a group discussion following the second-ever screening of the dramatic feature “Springsteen: Deliver Us From Nowhere.”

Asked why he said yes to this project after presumably being approached so many other times to have his life turned into a film, Springsteen took issue with the premise of the question. “Um, I don’t know that he have,” he chuckled. Manager Jon Landau, seated beside him, did not jump in to mention how many movie queries he kept from ever making it to his client’s desk.

But “what brought this one along,” Springsteen continued, “was th

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