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Let's Get Lost is a penetrating Oscar-nominated documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (1929-1988). After a generous amount of screen time devoted to Baker's American career, from his da... read more read more...ys with Charlie "Bird" Parker and Gerry Mulligan to the formation of his own combo, the film dwells upon Baker's lengthy tenure in Europe. Of particular interest are the clips culled from Baker's appearances in Italian films of the 1960s. In-depth interviews with Baker's friends and co-workers paint a portrait of a troubled genius, whose drug addiction and womanizing gradually eroded his talent. Much of the terminal footage is literally that, showing in harsh detail what Chet Baker had become in his last year on earth. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 5 min.

Directed by: Bruce Weber

Release Date: April 21, 1989

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DVD Release Date: April 17, 1990

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  • fb1142797643
    March 30, 2010
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    A thoughtful, but monotonous, documentary of a tragic jazz figure. Much like Chet Baker's music, the tone is continually soft and low-key. I suppose the most damning criticism I can make is that the film failed to convince me of his genius -- his trumpet-playing was lovely, but n... read moreot uniquely so, and his endless parade of melancholy love ballads did not connect with me at all. What made him focus so exclusively on this sedate, "cool" style of jazz? "Let's Get Lost" won't tell you. In a way, I think director Bruce Weber was "lucky" that his footage was shot so soon before Baker's death, because the film wouldn't be as notable if not for its happenstance feel of an epitaph.
  • littlecharmer1959
    May 17, 2009
    littlecharmer1959
    Chet Baker, the James Dean of jazz. Chet was no saint, and all his flaws are made clear by Bruce Weber but there's no denying that he was a legendary musician, and this is also made evident by Weber. Despite Chet's problems people instantly fell in love with him, the numorous wiv... read morees and girlfriends, the fellow musicians, the fans, and by the end of the film so was I. Even in the footage of the old and haggard Chet after years of drug abuse he still comes across as an enigmatic figure. I admit before watching this I didn't know much about Chet Baker, but whether you are an avid fan, or just have a passing interest in jazz, this is an interesting piece of work.
  • jackamaku
    July 26, 2007
    jackamaku
    see it, even though you can't...

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Jim Emerson
March 14, 2008
Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times

Let's Get Lost is an atmospheric black-and-white portrait of a jazz trumpet player, an exemplar of West Coast 'cool jazz' in the age when rapid-fire bebop was hot, whose life, career and face were rui... Full Review

John Monaghan
March 7, 2008
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

There are moments in Let's Get Lost when, if you squint just a little, [Chet] Baker is a ghost image of his former self, the 1950s musical equivalent of James Dean. Full Review

Desson Thomson
March 6, 2008
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

Watching Let's Get Lost, shot in a liquid black-and-white, we are lost in a monotonal, gorgeously shot reverie about Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter whose alabaster-smooth, pretty face and plaintive to... Full Review

Steven Rea
January 31, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

First released in 1989, Let's Get Lost -- shot in the high-contrast black-and-white that's a hallmark of Weber's still photography -- is well worth revisiting on the big screen. Full Review

Mark Feeney
January 25, 2008
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

Yes, it's about Baker, obviously, but a Baker who's somehow both much more and much less than the man seen on screen. Full Review

Carina Chocano
January 11, 2008
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's haunting documentary about legendary jazz musician Chet Baker, first came out in 1989 and hasn't been easy to catch since. Now reissued in 35 millimeter, the film looks l... Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
June 13, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

A gripping and affecting film with a striking noirish look (well photographed by Jeff Preiss), but also a rather dumb one that is both enhanced and limited by Weber's pie-eyed adoration of his subject. Full Review

Hal Hinson
June 13, 2007
Hal Hinson, Washington Post

Weber is working here out of a highly specialized interest, and what he means to say about his subject comes to us through layers of ambivalence. Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
June 13, 2007
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

[A] shimmeringly decadent and fascinating portrait of the West Coast jazz legend Chet Baker. Full Review

Gene Seymour
June 13, 2007
Gene Seymour, Newsday

[A] stark, haunting and often dryly funny portrait of an all-American hipster-heel in twilight. Full Review

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