
Louie Bluie
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.
Louie Bluie
November 13, 1985
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Cast (5)

Howard Armstrong
Himself

Ted Bogan
Himself

Jay Lynch
Himself

Yank Rachell
Himself

Ikey Robinson
Himself
Crew (6)
Directing

Terry Zwigoff
Director
Writing
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Terry Zwigoff
Producer

Frank Simeone
Producer
Sound
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David Myers
Cinematography

Christopher Li
Cinematography
Editing

Victoria Lewis
Editor