Louie Bluie

11/13/1985Released

11/10/1985Premiere
Chicago International Film Festival

11/13/1985Theatrical (limited)
New York City, New York

Louie Bluie(1985)

DocumentaryMusicRated 60 min.

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.

"Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest"

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