plays like an elegy for the demise of the cool, thick with the small-hours allure of addiction and infatuation but smart enough to see clearly.
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06/06/08
Let's Get Lost (1988)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 60 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: This film follows Baker and his music over the years and includes musicians from the early west coast movement, and his family and friends commenting on what it was like to hang out with the great... [More]
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Reviews for Let's Get Lost
A wide-eyed love letter to a jazz great, very much of its time, sporting stylish visuals and a sublime soundtrack.
06/06/08
Slowly, surely this composite portrait of Chet then and now (or in 1987, when Weber shot the film) reveals its own depths.
06/05/08
This is simply the finest jazz documentary ever made.
06/05/08
A beautiful film - as flawed as its subject, and all the more fascinating because of its odd lapses.
05/22/08
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 ruined by his various addictions.
03/14/08
Top CriticThe film, shot in black and white, doesn't follow a linear storyline. But the message of his jet-setting lifestyle and, more crucial, the naturalness of his gift is clear.
03/07/08
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.
03/07/08
Top CriticWatching 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.
03/06/08
Top CriticWeber's documentary serves up an exquisite fusion of filmmaking style and subject matter to serve up a film that captures the essence of cool.
02/17/08
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.
01/31/08
Top CriticYes, it's about Baker, obviously, but a Baker who's somehow both much more and much less than the man seen on screen.
01/25/08
Top CriticLet'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 like a pristine time-capsule.
01/11/08
Top CriticIt's a perfect meeting of filmmaker and subject, with Weber playing the role of the obsessed fan who, like everyone else who ever came into contact with Baker, gets burned by a man who literally made art out of inwardness.
01/11/08
It's a stunner, and it's not like any film you've ever seen.
11/30/07
Although it offers an invaluable record of a self-destructive artist at the end of his life, it is also a repellent exploitation of this artist's decline.
10/25/07
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.
06/13/07
Top CriticWeber 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.
06/13/07
Top Critic[A] shimmeringly decadent and fascinating portrait of the West Coast jazz legend Chet Baker.
06/13/07
Top Critic[A] stark, haunting and often dryly funny portrait of an all-American hipster-heel in twilight.
06/13/07
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