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Let's Get Lost on DVD (1988)

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Average rating: 62%
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Starring: Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Bjarne Henriksen, Vera Baker, Paul Baker, Dean Baker, Jesper Asholt, Missy Baker, Martin Kongstad, Mette Agnete Horn, Dick Bock, William F. Claxton, Tine Bernhard Nielsen, Cecilie Brask, Hersh Hamel, Chris Isaak, Vera Gebuhr
Director: Bruce Weber
Studio: METRODOME
Run time: 115 mins
Certificate: 15
User collections: Music-infused movies
Genres: Documentary
Languages: English
Released: 28/07/2008

Brief synopsis of Let's Get Lost

Directed by internationally renowned photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber, the Oscar nominated Let's Get Lost offers an incredibly powerful insight into the life of the late jazz great Chet baker.

Travelling with the exclusive icon, Weber weaves together the life story of a man they called "the James Dean of the jazz world" charting his incredible rise to international fame and adulation and his tragically rapid demise into womanising and drug addiction. The film uses excerpts from rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends and battling ex wives in what turned out to be the last year of his life.

His movie star looks and cool sound set Baker apart but his endless battle with a narcotic addiction also gave a generation of fans a Doomed Youth of their very own. Chet Baker's life plays out like a Kerouac creation, as did his death (he fell out of an Amsterdam hotel window, age 58), but out of life came some of the most lyrical trumpet playing and jazz vocals ever heard.

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Rated - 0 starsI'd forgotten why I hated jazz. This helped.

hardtoplease from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 24/09/2008

Chet Baker played a little trumpet in a style he stole off Miles Davis.

Chet Baker was very photogenic but he sang like a girl. For a little while he was very hip, mostly due to that photogenic thing. Then he got into heroin.

Thirty years later he looks like some one whos been doing heroin for thirty years.

A bunch of sychophants stand around listening to his mumblings in awe.

The discerning viewer turns off in boredom after thirty minutes and swears off any thing jazz for another ten years.

Reminded again that just because he is advancing in years and occasionaly feels his musical taste should be expanded a little, jazz is never the answer.

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Rated - 4 starsLet's Get Lost

JoanfromOutsiders from Liverpool [Highly rated reviewer] , 15/09/2008

I've always loved the sound of Chet Baker's voice with it's strange, ever-so-slightly-flat feel - a sort of built-in disappointment and that whole era of laid back jazz so the reissue of this film was a must for me.

It's heartbreaking but not in a smaltzy, jazz dude does smack cliche way. I found the deadness of his eyes one of the most disheartening things I have ever seen.

The way the film is made suits the whole climate the man lived in and as the people around him speak for themselves it becomes very obvious who loved and who just abused him, and him them.

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Rated - 2 starspretentious

A customer from Hove , 03/08/2008

I'm a fan of Bruce Weber's photography , but this was like watching one very long Calvin Klein ad . It never really gets going and seems very self indulgent . Its a shame as the subject matter of Chet Baker could have potentially been very interesting .

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Rated - 1 starsDont believe the hype

A customer from Surrey, England , 01/09/2008

One of the first films that I have turned off before the end, for years. I don't normally comment on films but this was so unutterably poor that I wouldnt want anyone else to make the same mistake. After all the hype, disappointing in the extreme.

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Rated - 3 starsA fall from grace

Thrillhammer from London , 10/10/2008

Very homoerotic homage to the bad boy of West coast jazz that looks like a 1980s Calvin Klein ad. Apart from that, some nice tunes including Almost Blue that Costello wrote for him. The saddest part is seeing his kids on camera, truly heart wrenching and stays in your mind long after viewing. Heroin and cocaine taken intravenously was Chet's drug of choice and I couldn't think of a better advert to advise young people not to follow Baker's example. A tragic waste of looks and talent sacrificed to the needle.

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Rated - 2 starspretentious

A customer from Hove , 03/08/2008

I'm a fan of Bruce Weber's photography , but this was like watching one very long Calvin Klein ad . It never really gets going and seems very self indulgent . Its a shame as the subject matter of Chet Baker could have potentially been very interesting .

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