Every Sunday in January–starting January 10–The Matthews’ presents a different movie during our 2016 Foreign Film Festival. All movies start at 2:00 p.m. All seats are $8 or you may buy a Producer’s Pass (see below).  Popcorn, beer, wine, and soft drinks are available for purchase.

These movies will represent the same genre as our BIG READ book, “The Maltese Falcon.”   

Detective Dee & the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
PG-13: 119 minutes | CHINA

With English subtitles.
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

Director: Hark Tsui
Writers: Chia-lu Chang (screenplay) (as Jialu Zhang) , Kuo-fu Chen
Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Chao Deng, Carina Lau

BUY TICKETS

PRODUCER’S PASS
Save money by purchasing the Foreign Film Festival Producer’s Pass for $25. The pass is good for 4 admissions of any combination of any movie. This pass must be purchased at least 24 hours in advance of the movie you plan on seeing. 

BUY PRODUCER’S PASS

PLEASE NOTE: If you purchase this pass online, a hard copy of this pass will be mailed to you. You are to bring the Producer’s Pass with you to each movie you attend. Our ushers will hole-punch the ticket on arrival.

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.