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Let's Get Lost (1988)
Certainly the most famous film about Chet Baker. The film is
beautifully made, and it has some
great interviews with Chet and those
who knew him. Unfortunately, the filmmaker depicts the trumpeter as a washed-up
musician with his best days behind him. You almost get the feeling when
watching this film that Bruce Weber knew that Chet had less than a year to
live, and wanted to make this film an obituary, rather than a documentary.
The film depends more on interviews and recollections than it does on
archival footage. There are a few clips of Chet's Italian movie, and well
as a short clip from Hell's Horizon, but sadly, there are very few
old musical performance clips. The interviews with Chet's family become
uncomfortable at times, and the spots with his old pal Jack Sheldon are
great.
Let's Get Lost was released on DVD in 2008, but only in
Europe.
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