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Let's Get Lost

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Original title: Let's Get Lost
Year: 1988
Running time: 120 min.
Country: United States
Director: Bruce Weber
Screenwriter: Bruce Weber
Cast: Documentary, Self: Chet Baker
Cinematography: Jeff Preiss
Producer: Little Bear Productions, Nan Bush
Genre: Documentary | Music Documentary. Jazz. Biography
Synopsis: Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker, directed by famous photographer Bruce Weber. This documentary about jazz trumpeter-singer Chet Baker 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). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

Rankings Position

#35 Best Music Documentaries
#54 Best Documentaries in the history of film

Awards: 1988: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary

1988: Venice Film Festival: Cinecritica Award

1989: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated to Grand Jury Prize

1989: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Cinematogr. & Documentary

1989: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Documentary

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Critics' reviews

"Just about the only documentary that works like a novel, inviting you to read between the lines of Baker's personality until you touch the secret sadness at the heart of his beauty."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"Illusion and disillusionment entwine through the film like twin helixes, weaving a dreamy, free-form look at his life and legacy."

Carina Chocano: Los Angeles Times
"Baker's life, like his music, was as sad as it was beautiful. And Weber's movie - obsessed with Baker's image as much as with his songs - hits all the right notes."

Steven Rea: Philadelphia Inquirer
"The miraculous thing about Let's Get Lost is that Weber has managed to create something that's both impossibly stylized and unmistakably moral (not judgmental, moral)."

Mark Feeney: Boston Globe
"Baker's face, and the extraordinary ways in which Bruce Weber has photographed it, encapsulate the story of Baker's life in a succession of ghostly, indelible images"

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"Alongside archive material and new footage of Chet shot in his signature romantic, B&W style, Weber elicits frank reminiscences from his subject and a host of ex-lovers and friends. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Dave Calhoun: Time Out
"It's not exactly a documentary, more a lovingly-filmed homage, but some candid interview material allows scraps of Baker's story to emerge."

Andrew Pulver: The Guardian

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