Let's Get Lost

Directed by Bruce Weber

Release Year: 1988
Running time: 120
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Genres: Documentary
Subjects: Music
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Synopsis

Directed by: Bruce Weber

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. 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. Since its release in 1989 Let's Get Lost has introduced a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to the timeless talent of the late Chet Baker.

Reviews & Awards

Reviews

"The finest jazz movie ever made."

— David Parkinson, Empire Magazine
 

"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 tones broke hearts."

— Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
 

"A shimmeringly decadent and fascinating portrait of the West Coast jazz legend Chet Baker."

— Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly
 

"A stark, haunting and often dryly funny portrait of an all-American hipster-heel in twilight."

— Gene Seymour, Newsday
 

"A gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic."

— Jim Ridley, The Village Voice
 

"Weber's documentary serves up an exquisite fusion of filmmaking style and subject matter to serve up a film that captures the essence of cool."

— Beth Accomando, KPBS
 

"A wide-eyed love letter to a jazz great."

— Ali Catterall, Film4
 

"It's a stunner, and it's not like any film you've ever seen."

— Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press
 

A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.