THE ARTIST’S WIFE
Directed by Tom Dolby and starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern. Strand Releasing, September 2020.
Directed by Tom Dolby and starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern. Strand Releasing, September 2020.
ABOUT
Tom Dolby is a filmmaker, producer, novelist, and comedian. He recently directed the genre-bending stand-up comedy special Samantha Hale: Horror Nerd, shot live at the Hollywood Improv and released by Comedy Dynamics. Tom’s feature The Artist’s Wife starred Lena Olin and Bruce Dern and was released in 2020 by Strand Releasing. His filmmaking debut, Last Weekend, starred Patricia Clarkson and was released in 2014 by IFC/Sundance Selects. Tom is the principal of Water’s End Productions, which develops filmmaker-driven independent projects, including the work of acclaimed directors such as Luca Guadagnino and Ira Sachs. Tom is also a novelist who has written four books, most recently published by HarperCollins. He also regularly performs as a stand-up comic at clubs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Tom lives in Los Angeles with his partner and their two daughters.
WATER'S END PRODUCTIONS
Founded in 2012, Water’s End Productions is a film development and production company committed to creating provocative and dynamic human stories. Through the development of challenging material, Water’s End provides a home for original voices and unique perspectives.
Releases have included Luca Guadagnino’s Academy Award®-winning Call Me By Your Name, starring Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Timothée Chalamet; Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, about famed Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers; Peter Livolsi’s The House of Tomorrow, starring Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, and Asa Butterfield; Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, and The Artist’s Wife, starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern.
Water’s End’s inaugural project was the feature film Last Weekend, starring Patricia Clarkson, written by Tom Dolby, and co-directed by Dolby and his longtime friend Tom Williams. In producing the film, Water’s End partnered with Academy Award®-winning producer Mark Johnson and acclaimed independent producer Mike Ryan.
FILMS
“A Chekhovian spirit hovers over Last Weekend…[the film] is an elegiac ode to affluence.”
-Andy Webster, The New York Times
on Last Weekend
“Patricia Clarkson gives a tour de force performance as the matriarch of a San Francisco family in Last Weekend….Clarkson and the rest of the cast give the rich a human touch, revealing their fears and their joys.”
-Leba Hertz, The San Francisco Chronicle
on Last Weekend
“A masterpiece of contemporary cinema.”
-The Huffington Post
on Last Weekend
“Sleek and absorbing.”
-The Hollywood Reporter
on Last Weekend
“Clarkson, one of our very best actresses, gives a terrifically nuanced, heartbreaking and often very funny performance.”
-David Wiegand, The San Francisco Chronicle
on Last Weekend
“A smart, stylish, amusing and delectably entertaining movie, not to be missed. The remarkable Patricia Clarkson is pure manna from heaven, leading a superb ensemble cast. You probably will even recognize yourself somewhere in this gorgeously photographed, splendidly realized film for grownups.”
-Pete Hammond, Movieline
on Last Weekend
“Terrific…a superbly nuanced performance in which [Olin] seems literally to glow brighter the longer she’s onscreen…The Artist’s Wife displays rare sophistication for a non-European film, allowing its no-longer-young stars to demonstrate that physical passion doesn’t necessarily diminish with age.”
-The Hollywood Reporter
on The Artist’s Wife
“Olin subtly expresses an impressively diverse array of complex and often contradictory emotions…Dern sustains a firm grip on our sympathy…Scenes…crackle with intensity.”
-Variety
on The Artist’s Wife
“Olin…makes Claire both ravishing and ravaged.”
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
on The Artist’s Wife
“The story of a woman reclaiming her autonomy and identity…the revelation here is Lena Olin, who gets her best role in years.”
-Mick LaSalle, The San Francisco Chronicle
on The Artist’s Wife
“Samantha Hale takes us on a witty and irreverent journey through her unconventional childhood and undying love of horror films.”
-Academy Award®-Nominated Actor and Horror Icon Jennifer Tilly
on Samantha Hale: Horror Nerd
“Scary, spooky stuff. I almost died…laughing!”
-Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
on Samantha Hale: Horror Nerd
BOOKS
The Trouble Boy
"An expertly observed and deeply unsettling debut. Tom Dolby has the sharp urban sensibility of a Candace Bushnell and the unflinching gaze of a Bret Easton Ellis." -Bestselling author Christopher Rice
The Sixth Form
"Beautifully observed…a reminder how close disaster always is when you’re 17.” -Publisher’s Weekly
Girls Who Like Boys
Who Like Boys
“The book is quietly revolutionary—in our divisive world, reading about people who celebrate each other’s differences is thoroughly refreshing.” -Time Out New York
Secret Society
"Creepy fun…with a cinematic feel that readers will adore.” -Booklist
The Trust
"Historical elements of ancient Egypt, New York society and art history are intertwined in this intense mystery, which the teens must unpack to learn the Society’s secrets and earn their freedom.” - Kirkus ReviewsCONTACT
GENERAL INQUIRIES
COMPANY
Susanne Filkins, Water’s End Productions
424.293.0714
AGENT
Keya Khayatian, UTA
310.273.6700