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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