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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.

I'm David Remnick.

At the New Yorker Festival recently,

we were joined by a film actor we can legitimately call a legend.

Whether she's playing a 1950s housewife,

a 1970s adult film star, a linguistics professor

losing her memory, or Sarah Palin. She brings depth and humor and tragedy and incandescence

to all her roles. And she's the author of the best-selling children's book, Freckleface

Strawberry. Staff writer Michael Schulman sat down last month with Julianne Moore.

The following is only a partial list of the director she's worked with.

Robert Altman, Louis Moll, Todd Haynes, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lisa Cholidenko,

Steven Spielberg, the Cohen brothers, Ridley Scott, Stephen Daldry,

Alfonso Corrin, Rebecca Miller, Jesse Eisenberg, Tom Ford, Kimberly Pierce, David Cronenberg,

Julie Tamor, and George Clooney. And she's just added to the list, Pedro Amadovar.

In his first English language feature The Room Next Door, co-starring Tilda Swinton.

Have you decided where we're going?

That's why I called.

It's near Woodstock, about two hours from the city.

It looks fantastic.

It's a bit expensive, but hey, the occasion calls for it.

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