This documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter-singer Chet Baker intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, with a series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, as well as with scenes from some of his later performances. We see the handsome young Baker in California and Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and one jail cell (for drug possession), and we also see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his once beautiful face a ruin. As lyrical and romantic as Baker’s trumpet, Let’s Get Lost is an elegy for a more carefree age and a chance to get lost in a cool world.
LET’S GET LOST
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- Direction: Bruce Weber
- Cinematography: Jeff Preiss
- Editing: Angelo Corrao
- Sound: Maurice Schell
- Production: Zeitgeist Films
- Producers: Bruce Weber
- Format: 35mm
- Color: B&W
- Production Country: USA
- Production Year: 1989
- Duration: 119'
Bruce Weber
Bruce Weber was born on March 29, 1946 in Greenburg, Pennsylvania. He has been a dynamic force in fashion and portraiture photography for more than two decades. He has photographed for virtually every major magazine, has 16 books to his credit, and his work has been exhibited in over 60 galleries and museums. Weber is equally acclaimed for his filmmaking and has produced seven short and feature length movies, two of which won Best Documentary awards from the International Documentary Association. Lets Get Lost was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Weber has directed music videos for Chris Isaak and the Pet Shop Boys, the latter winning Music Weeks Video of the Year. He is currently finishing a documentary he filmed with the late Robert Mitchum, in which the actor talks about moviemaking, politics, women and his life.
