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Louie Bluie poster
Trailer
Louie Bluie
7.4
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1h 0m
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1985
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Howard Armstrong poster
Howard Armstrong
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Ted Bogan poster
Ted Bogan
Himself
Jay Lynch poster
Jay Lynch
Himself
Yank Rachell poster
Yank Rachell
Himself
Ikey Robinson poster
Ikey Robinson
Himself

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