![]() ![]() #Smoovie doug loves movies movieOn a personal note since justinc79 mentions Ding-A-Ling Less, I will admit I f-ked up probably the funniest scene in the movie for Onur. I think justinc79 sums up what kind of man he is, he just loves film and loves anyone that also loves it and will do anything he can to help you out. I am guessing he was having one of those moments where he thought he was being really funny and everyone would love the moment and him and it got out of hand. We are not close but I have known him since college, 30 years or so, and he has the biggest heart in the world but does have a need for attention that can get out of hand. I have not listened to the Podcast but stumbling in to this Reddit I thought I would throw a good word in for Onur. It's a really brilliant film and I've always felt it deserved to get more attention. I just thought I'd share this as a counterpoint to what I'm sure a lot of DLM listeners probably have assumed about Onur.Īnd seriously, I highly recommend checking out Ding-A-Ling-Less. I'm not trying to get defensive for a friend or attack Doug, because I like them both. Hell, the dude even mentioned a godawful MiniDV vampire movie I made when I was in high school in a promotional video for Summer of Blood. He gave me hands-down the best artwork for the gag I had planned and didn't ask for a cent for his work. But getting to see a him find his second wind with his more recent films like Richard's Wedding, Summer of Blood, Applesauce and finally end up directing some pretty big names in Catfight has been pretty amazing and inspiring.Ībout a year or so ago, I was editing my latest film, Winners Tape All: The Henderson Brothers (shameless plug: or it's streaming on Amazon Prime), and was having trouble with graphic design for a faux movie poster that I couldn't realize on my own, so I called Onur. I can remember his next film not going so well and him telling me that he was considering throwing in the towel, which was a shame. Both he and his girlfriend (who was working on either Dawson's Creek or One Tree Hill at the time) shared some really valuable advice with me and the entire thing was one of the most encouraging things an adult could've done for an aspiring 16-year-old filmmaker. I can even remember being kind of disappointed that I couldn't continue on to a local bar after each night to con I wanted him to do a Q&A after the screening, but he didn't feel comfortable doing anything too formal - which was fine, because he still had conversations with everyone in the place after it was over, which was about what it would've been had I forced it. ![]() That coffee shop was like a community center for all the artistic people in such a small town and he really got along with everyone. ![]() He and his then-girlfriend came up and spent two days at my rinky-dink film festival. Not only did he allow it, he wanted to come up from North Carolina for the event on his own dime. I really loved the film and asked Onur if I could screen it at my next event. Around the same time, I was running my own film festival, which was essentially a teenager playing indie shorts and features on about a half-dozen TVs hooked up throughout a coffee shop in my hometown of Fairmont, WV. We did an interview over AIM that went really well and he sent me a copy of his latest movie, Re-Membering Jack (later released as Ding-A-Ling-Less). he even introduced me to his wife that way).Īnyway, I got in touch with Onur after seeing Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood, a movie he directed for Troma under a pseudonym. I did a lot of interviews with various Troma filmmakers that I still count as my unofficial film schooling (and the amount of filmmakers who told the truth about their dealings with Troma led Lloyd Kaufman to refer to me as "the only person who runs a fan site that badmouths us". When I was a teenager, I was an aspiring filmmaker who also ran a fan site for Troma. That's why this whole thing is a bit of a bummer for me. I had a pleasant meeting with Doug after a show at the Improv in Pittsburgh a few years back. ![]() I've also enjoyed Doug Loves Movies quite a bit and it helped me get through many night-audit shifts at a soul-sucking hotel job I worked at a few years ago. I've known Onur Tukel since about 2003-04. ![]()
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