SYNOPSIS: 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.
| Director | Terry Zwigoff |
| Producer | Terry Zwigoff |
| Editing | Victoria Lewis |
| Cinematography | John Knoop and Chris Li |
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By August 09, 2010
San Francisco filmmaker Terry Zwigoff’s first cinematic effort, the 1985 Louie Bluie, is a wry, ribald, and magical portrait of the country-blues string band player and Read more »
September 29, 2010
He may be best known for his marvelous movies about misfits, but Terry Zwigoff is also a renowned southern jazz and blues junkie. So it’s a real treat to hear the man gab about music rather Read more »
August 11, 2010
When Terry Zwigoff made his debut feature Louie Bluie in 1985, he didn’t have big plans for a movie career. “My expectations were to show it in my living room to friends,” he explains in Read more »
August 17, 2010
Our twin releases of Terry Zwigoff’s Louie Bluie and Crumb (the former never before available on DVD) are cause for celebration not only for fans of their idiosyncratic director but Read more »
