PHOTOS FROM THE DAY OF THE PARTY…and a few others

We shot a daytime party scene (“Grace” is a party-loving woman!) and I took some waiting- around- to- shoot pictures. You can tell there was a mellow vibe, right!? Bruce filmed much of it in one long hand held camera shot and those who saw it said it looked liked a real party. People were having fun. The sound man, Vince, would turn an Al Green song I chose up real high so we’d get into the groove and then turn it off just as we started to speak cause we don’t have the rights to use the song but I wanted us all to be movin and groovin to the right mellow tempo for when the film is actually scored. The weather was sweet so folks would be outside playing, talking, laughing, finding frogs….though the party was indoors.

Alex Wolff, Nat's brother, the second half of The Naked Brothers Band from the Nicholodeon show.

A game of badminton while waiting to shoot. That's Lizzie on the left

Nat and Alex

Alex and Nat's parents, actor Polly (just finished a role in "The Big C", Laura Linney's new Showtime series) and Michael Wolff. He is a famed jazz pianist

Costume designer, Johann Stegmier on the right, with Assistant costumer, Kate Jones

Is this an adorable chicken or what!!?? She stays this way, with down instead of feathers.

This is her mom. Check out the feathered bellbottoms

Polly, Michael and Maddie

Marissa finds a tiny frog

Terry plays "Jasper", my boyfriend of the moment, in the film

Maddie Corman Alexander as "Carol" and Poorna Jagannathan as "Mira" in the party scene

Marissa O'Donnell as "Tara" and Nat Wolff as "Jake"

Maddies, Rosanna (Arquette as "Darcy", Poorna and Terry McKenna as "Jasper" preparing to film the party

Lizzie Olsen as "Zoe"

He played a biker at the party and he is a biker for real.

Denis Burse as "Angel"

Joyce Van Patten as "Miriam"

I'm including this picture because I think it's a cool way to store your old vinyl records

Catherine Keener as "Diana", with Nat an Lizzie who play her kids, my grands.

Poorna, the resident chronicler of the scenes, photographing Denis and others

Bruce giving some scene advice to Marissa and Michael

That's gorgeous Lizzie on the stairs

Our wonderful, kind, thoughtful, smart producer, Claude Dal Farra, and Alinda, who actually works with Claude's Anthropedia Foundation but is assisting me during the shoot.

Maddie Corman Alexander as "Carol" and Poorna Jagannathan as "Mira"

Catherine Keener (photo by: Poorna Jagannathan)

Photo by: Poorna Jagannathan

Photo by: Poorna Jagannathan

I also found pictures from the other night—the night of the Moon Festival. Some people I deeply care about came to visit the set and I can’t not post those pictures, albeit belatedly.

Elizabeth Lesser is co-founder of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck and author of a book I love, “Broken Open,” about how sometimes tragedies and traumas can cause us to become whole. Peter Buffett is a fine composer, musician and activist and Jennifer runs their foundation and is totally special. I’ve known and loved Pat Mitchell since the early 90’s when she ran Ted Turner’s documentary division at TBS, then was President/CEO of PBS, and now Prez and CEO of the Paley center which used to be the Museum of Radio and Television—a truly amazing, formidable, fun, loving woman . Scott Seydel is her husband, an environmental activist, using his knowledge as a chemical engineer to help big companies (and cities) figure out how to recycle and go green. Scott is also the father of Rutherford Seydel who is married to Laura Turner Seydel, my stepdaughter. So Pat and I share 3 grandchildren. Laura and her first born, son John R, are coming up to visit the 20-21st and I am so excited. They will be up in these parts looking at colleges for him…a fact of life I can hardly countenance!! I filmed his birth, for Pete’s sake!!

Whew! Aren’t modern families complicated?

Pat and Scott

Elizabeth Lesser, Peter Buffett, Jennifer Buffett in front, then Pat Mitchell, me, Scott Seydel, Pat’s husband, and Elizabeth’s husband Tom.