The Cinematography Podcast

The Cinematography Podcast


Bill Wages, ASC: Talks The Forgiven, Into the West, Sun Records, Burn Notice, Down in the Delta, and inventing Glimmerglass filters.

August 21, 2019

The Cinematography Podcast Episode 43

William Wages, ASC

Bill Wages' decades of work as a cinematographer has taken him all over the world. His motto: complicated is easy, simple is hard. He talks about his work on the film, "The Forgiven," the TV series "Burn Notice," "Sun Records," "Into the West," and working with poet Maya Angelou on her directorial project "Down in the Delta." Bill also invented a number of groundbreaking cinematography tools: Tiffen Glimmerglass diffusion filters and two flagging devices known as WagFlags and WagBags.

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Ben's short end: His take on Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Illya's short end: Netflix's The Great Hack, about Cambridge Analytica using our data on Facebook.

Podcast Credits:

Editor in Chief:  Illya Friedman
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Producer: Alana Kode
Editor: Abby Corbett
Composer: Kays Alatractchi
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