Louie Bluie (Criterion Collection)

Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest
Louie Bluie (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 10, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 200
...The documentary team shrewdly keeps a low profile, letting us enjoy Armstrong's rambles through Chicago's South Side and his trip back home to Tennessee...
Los Angeles Times
Apr 2, 1986
Seeing it again under much better conditions, I understand... how much this film is of a piece with Crumb. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Aug 13, 2010
Rating: 9/10 -- A most curious man. And a magnificent performer. The one, the only Louie Bluie. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Aug 8, 2010
...Winning on the strength of its homespun charm....Colorful, lively and garrulous...
New York Times
Nov 13, 1985
Armstrong emerges as an extraordinary man navigating a mundane world....He worked steadily in an era that crossed musical genres freely, then wound up largely forgotten once that era passed. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Sep 18, 2010
Rating: 3.5/4 -- a jaunty, engaging documentary that never at any point pretends to be comprehensive or in any way complete Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Aug 10, 2010
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Louie Bluie peers into the areas where nothing is certain, except that these people live and strive and laugh and make music. It is a wonderful film. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000

Product Description:

A small, independent film made with loving care, about a fascinating, lovably down-to-earth, culturally significant subject that embodies and illustrates folkloric Americana, Howard Armstrong, Tennessee fiddler and mandolinist. Songs include: "State Street Rag," "My Four Reasons," "Diamond Dog Blues," and others.

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  • UPC: 715515061513
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