According to Murray Ledger & Times, the Murray State University will feature a film every Tuesday night. One film being the 2006 epic Apocalypto by our man Mel! …Cool students.

Student-Run Film Festival to Kick Off at MSU

Between the long-running Cinema International series and a recently founded student-run film series, Murray is becoming a great place for film lovers to be.

Tomorrow night at 7, the “Tinseltown Tuesdays” series will kick off its second semester at the Curris Center Theater with the 1989 time travel blockbuster Back to the Future 2. Jonah Waggoner, a Murray State University senior, said the series was started last year by Douglas Fish – known to friends simply as “Fish” – and Dave Fries. After Fish finished graduate school, he handed it over to Waggoner, who met Fish after becoming a resident assistant at Hart College, where Fish was the resident director. Waggoner said Fish and Fries came up with the idea for starting an entirely student-run film series so students could something fun to do on Tuesday nights.

Waggoner said the first season of Tinseltown Tuesdays took some time to build a following. A couple of movies saw very small crowds, but other nights had very enthusiastic audiences and the crowd was pretty stellar when the first season closed in May with the first “Back to the Future.” He said he hoped that after the first building season, word-of-mouth might have spread enough to have steady crowds every week.

Waggoner said Fish had quite a bit of input when he sat down to choose the movies they would play this fall. Most of the movies were chosen by Waggoner, but Fish shot down a few choices that he didn’t feel were “Tinseltown Tuesdays-caliber” and had a few suggestions to make the slate more diverse. For example, he suggested putting a “girlie movie” on the schedule, which ended up being 1986’s Dirty Dancing.

Some of the movies on the schedule were blockbusters when they were released, others were more modest hits and others are known more as cult favorites. Almost all were released in the 1980s or early ‘90s, since Fish’s original idea was to show movies that college students might not have had the chance to see in theaters, either because they were too young at the time or not born yet. Of course, that doesn’t apply to 1954’s Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window or 1958’s Vertigo, which played last semester.

“I was ordered by Fish to have at least one Hitchcock a semester,” Waggoner said.

There will be a movie every Tuesday at 7 p.m. except for the week of fall break. There is no admission fee. Gladiator will play Sept. 8; Revenge of the Nerds will play Sept. 15; Dumb and Dumber will play Sept. 22; “The Last of the Mohicans” will play Sept. 29; Short Circuit will play Oct. 6; An American Tale will play Oct. 13; Rear Window will play Oct. 20; Donnie Darko will play Oct. 27; Batman will play Nov. 3; Dirty Dancing will play Nov. 10; Apocalypto will play Dec. 1 and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation will close the semester on Dec. 8.

Source: Murray Ledger & Times