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Louie Bluie (1985)
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
“Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest”
Documentary, Music · 1h 00m
Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Terry Zwigoff
- Editor
- Victoria Lewis
- Producer
- Terry Zwigoff, Frank Simeone
Details
- Release date
- 1985-11-13
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Superior