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- AT the very end of Bruce Weber’s seductive, unsettling “Let’s Get Lost,” the movie’s subject, the semi-legendary cool-jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, looks back on the shooting of the film and says, in a quavery, almost tearful voice, “It was a dream.”
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Let's Get Lost is a 1988 American documentary film, written and directed by Bruce Weber, about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, who died four months before the film's release. [2]
Let's Get Lost: Directed by Bruce Weber. With Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker, Paul Baker. Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker.
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- Documentary, Biography, Music
- Bruce Weber
- 1989-10-05
1 day ago · The first half of “Let’s Get Lost” explores the sweetness Baker once had. Then it chronicles his long downfall. Baker relates his war stories for the thousandth time. He recalls reviving a friend who OD’d at a party and getting arrested after shooting up in a gas station bathroom in Italy. In the one that changed his looks and music ...
Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let’s Get Lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmaker on the life of a jazz legend.
A James Dean look alike pretty boy whose jazz trumpeting and melancholy epitomized ’50s cool, Chet Baker had become, when famed photographer Bruce Weber finally caught up with him after three decades of fandom, an alcoholic and a junkie, whose petulantly angelic looks peeping out from behind a gaunt, valleyed and crevassed face could have ...
Synopsis. Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession).
Bruce Weber's 'Let's Get Lost'. By Sam Pollard. It was the spring of 1988. I was living in Boston, working as a first-time producer on the epic documentary series Eyes on the Prize. I heard about a screening at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge of a documentary about the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. It was directed by the photographer Bruce Weber.
