Film

Louie Bluie

1985 · 1h · Documentary · Music

Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest

IMDb

7.6

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

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.

• Terry ZwigoffDirector · Producer
• Frank SimeoneProducer
• Victoria LewisEditor

Release date

November 13, 1985

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h

Genres

Documentary, Music