Slideshow
LOUIE BLUIE
Friday, April 17
4:30
Saturday, April 18
2:10
Monday, April 20
4:30
Tuesday, April 21
5:20
Thursday, April 23
3:00
U.S., 1985
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Featuring Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong
Approx. 60 min.
“A character study of Tennessee string-man and folk-painter Howard William Taft Armstrong, LOUIE BLUIE reeks like a raw, throbbing, true-blue wound of art-life representation. The interviews are so infectiously colloquial and the musical performances so impromptu and ramshackle that one marvels at the unabashed realism of it all. Zwigoff’s nimble extraction of extant talent here is nearly as inspired as his showmanship: After these 60 minutes with Armstrong, we want to rise to our feet and loudly demand an encore with an entreaty of stomps, claps, and whistles.” – Slant Magazine
Presented with support from The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund
Reviews
“This catchy, engaging sixty-minute documentary, a clattering stream of anecdotes, badinage, and jam sessions, captures an outsize personality in all his bawdy glory and aesthetic power, celebrating a remarkable, life-enhancing—no, life-catalyzing—force. Zwigoff brings back a forgotten age of ecstatic grassroots music-making, marked by runaway creativity and exuberance.”
– Michael Sragow, Criterion Current
LOUIE BLUIE
Post-film conversation with filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and Bruce Goldstein
Tuesday, April 21
5:20