Louie Bluie

1985 · 60 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 934 VOTES · DIR. Terry Zwigoff

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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.

Dialogue Timeline — 744 lines

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00:00:39 I don't know whether it's a liability or an asset.
00:04:13 'Cause I ain't gon' let you in my backyard.
00:05:55 You married two, and they both divorced you.
00:09:19 'cause you got a mouth like the Mammoth Caverns. Thank you very much.
00:10:54 Okay. Put that on account, on account of that I haveth no money.
00:12:35 The town that I grew up in is called LaFollette, Tennessee.
00:15:57 Everybody all up and down the strip had their little sets turned on...
00:18:03 Were just local bands in the hills around LaFollette.
00:20:53 She was married to my brother, Reverend Roland Armstrong.
00:24:28 And got the right stance, just like I was Abraham Lincoln, you know...
00:26:07 I lived on Seventh Street years ago.
00:27:46 Chicken ain't nothin' but a bird.
00:30:47 And I didn't know that they were angry becauseJoe Louis beat this big fighter...
00:32:29 - The one you... - Oh, that... that... Oh!
00:36:52 My dad was a painter, but he had to work hard, see?
00:38:39 We can give it to a damn preacher. What do I give a damn for?
00:40:17 I even got some things in here about Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba.
00:42:05 She had five kids... three out of one and two out of the other.
00:45:37 I say, "Yeah, if you put some strings on him, tune him up and give me a fiddle bow.
00:47:13 - Will do. - Who's next with the paper? You next?
00:48:48 "But some of you men out there... you're not functioning as a man.
00:51:15 Welcomes back Howard Armstrong, Banjo"Ikey Robinson...
00:54:48 Put something else up there...
00:56:37 But his nose got a great big whiff..

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed744
Dialogue density12.4 lines / min
First line00:00:39
Final line00:56:37

Production Record

DirectorTerry Zwigoff
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes934