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Louie Bluie Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1985
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, James “Yank” Rachell, “Banjo” Ikey Robinson
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Language: English
Release Date: 2010-10-08
Description

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.