Bruce Weber - let's get lost Chet Backer (2014) [DVD9 PAL]
Year, 1988
Director Bruce Weber
Actors Chet Baker; Carol Baker; Cherry Vanilla; Jack Sheldon
Disc 1
Genre Musica
Label Lucky Red, 2014
Lenght 120 min. DVD9 PAL (Format1,33:1)
Audio English, Dolby Digital 2.0 - stereo
Subtitles italiano
Extra (making of)
Remastered Edition
Let's Get Lost (1988) is an American documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber. The title is derived from a song by Jimmy McHugh and Frank Loesser from the 1943 film Happy Go Lucky which Baker recorded for Pacific Records
A group of Baker fans, ranging from ex-associates to ex-wives and children, talk about the man. Weber’s film traces the man’s career from the 1950s, playing with jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and Russ Freeman, to the 1980s, when his heroin addiction and domestic indifference kept him in Europe. By juxtaposing these two decades, Weber presents a sharp contrast between the younger, handsome Baker — the statuesque idol who resembled a mix of James Dean and Jack Kerouac — to what he became, “a seamy looking drugstore cowboy-cum-derelict,” as J. Hoberman put it in his Village Voice review.
Let’s Get Lost begins near the end of Baker’s life, on the beaches of Santa Monica, and ends at the Cannes Film Festival. Weber uses these moments in the present as bookends to the historic footage contained in the bulk of the film. The documentation ranges from vintage photographs by William Claxton in 1953 to appearances on The Steve Allen Show and kitschy, low budget Italian films Baker did for quick money.
Let's Get Lost was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1988.
