Louie Bluie
Title:
Louie Bluie
Uniform Title:
Louie Bluie (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9781604653113
Publication Information:
Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection : Janus Films, ©2010
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Series:
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Special features: Commentary by director Terry Zwigoff; Unused footage ("State Street Rag", "Nothing in this world for me", A snow dilemma, ".38 Pistol Blues", A grand rascal, "You're nobody until somebody loves you", Waltz, Blues jam, "Mean mistreater blues", "Old Joe Clark", Yank's story); Stills gallery. Booklet: "Something old, new, borrowed, and Bluie" essay by Michael Sragow.
Contents:
Plain old Louie Bluie -- Mr. Black Gable -- LaFollette, Tennessee -- All in the family -- Ain't nothin' but a bird -- Supply of talk exceeds the demand -- Cheat you fair -- Color bars.
Reading Level:
Not rated by the MPAA.
Personal Subject:
More Information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089507
Summary:
Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming years.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, FULL SCREEN (1.33:1) PRESENTATION, DOLBY DIGITAL 1.0 MONO SOUND (ENGLISH), DUAL LAYER, NTSC.
Language Note:
IN ENGLISH DIALOGUE; WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES (SDH) AVAILABLE FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING.
