Louie Bluie (1985)
Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest
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.
- Date of release
- 1985-11-13
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Director
- Terry Zwigoff
Casting
- Howard Armstrong — Himself
- Ted Bogan — Himself
- Jay Lynch — Himself
- Yank Rachell — Himself
- Ikey Robinson — Himself
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