Comfort Film Presents:

Chicago Film Society STOOGES IN THE PARK on 16mm

STOOGES IN THE PARK
Often misunderstood, rarely celebrated, and occasionally openly derided, The Three Stooges (Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, and sometimes Shemp Howard) have been an occasional and sometimes controversial staple of Chicago Film Society’s programming since our modest beginnings in 2011. “Why are they so mean to each other.” Asks the timid Midwesterner who has never had to live with a roommate or sibling. “Why are they so dumb?” Asks the well intentioned over thinker. “Why are they so bad at their jobs?” Asks the craftsman who has never suffered the crippling pain of their own incompetence. You will have questions, too, but rest assured the Three Stooges are actually very kind, very smart, and very good at what they do. This family friendly program of Three Stooges shorts will be accompanied by other inexplicable oddities from the Chicago Film Society film collection. Admission to this outdoor screening is free!

Approx 90 min • 16mm from CFS

About the Chicago Film Society
Founded by projectionists in 2011, the Chicago Film Society exists to promote the preservation of film in context. Film prints capture the past uniquely. As physical artifacts, they hold the stories told by films, but also the stories of the industries that produced them, the labs that printed them, the places where they were exhibited, and the people who watched them. All of this history—not just of film, but of industry, labor, recreation, and culture—is more intelligible and powerful when it’s grounded in unsimulated experience: seeing a film in a theater, with an audience, and projected from film stock.

The screening will be outside weather permitting.

Programmed for Comfort Station by Raul Benitez, Emily Perez, Mat Tapey and Luna.