Let's Get Lost (1988)

Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Bruce Weber
Starring: Carol Baker, Dean Baker, Chet Baker, Paul Baker, Vera Baker, Missy Baker
Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
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Let's Get Lost belongs to 9 collections
1. Post-1960s black & white photography (collaborative: moderated by djross - 21 stars)
2. Drugs (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 16 stars)
3. Music documentary (collaborative: moderated by djross - 11 stars)
4. Musician / Composer (collaborative: moderated by djross - 6 stars)
5. Jazz (collaborative: moderated by paulofilmo - 6 stars)
6. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)
7. Coheed's Celluloid Pit (public: Coheed - 1 star)
8. Parodied in Documentary Now! (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed)
9. The Leonard Maltin List (collaborative: moderated by wokelstein)
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Nov 09, 2022 | rojatume | 85 87th |
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Achingly beautiful, like Chet's music
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Apr 12, 2016 | theficionado | 88 87th |
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Hits a sweet spot between impossibly romantic, sensual and clear-eyed, critical assessment of a brilliant but fundamentally flawed human being. A portrait of a man with a talent so prodigious and natural that it gave him a kind of terrible freedom. "It was so beautiful. All I'm saying is, it was a dream, you know. Things like that don't happen ... just to very few."
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Jun 13, 2014 | ![]() |
JakeAesthete | 96 96th |
Mesmerizing. A perfect marriage of form and content.
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Feb 02, 2014 | ![]() |
chemical404 | 59 55th |
A depressing look at the life of Chet Baker, who's sort of tragic hero and stories of people like him are never bright. This documentary is well filmed on black and white film and shows interviews with Baker himself and variety of people from his life, mostly women.
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Oct 21, 2012 | ![]() |
Angliche92 | 84 91st |
The cinematography was really impressive. The story was compelling and interesting. That's the way to do it !
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Mar 22, 2010 | ![]() |
JooJoo | 6 95th |
love love love it.
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Dec 03, 2009 | ![]() |
DavidKahane | 43 24th |
The film has a striking visual palette, even if Weber struggles to find a compelling way to tell his story. By the time Weber turns his cameras on Baker in the mid-1980s, he's as beaten as ancient barn sitting unprotected in a storm alley. Weber's film is evocative in capturing Baker's heyday, but his descent, which should be more compelling dramatically, isn't vividly drawn. It makes the whole find feel like a notion that no one too the time to properly develop.
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Oct 22, 2009 | ![]() |
begoniabol | 68 56th |
Beautiful music
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Aug 19, 2009 | ![]() |
DonP | 99 92nd |
I worshipped Chet back in college when I had fantasies of jazz-trumpet playing. And then I grew up of course, and saw Chet's life for what it was. The film didn't tell me much I didn't already know from biographies, but it makes the tragedy of Baker's life, and the lives of those he touched, more real. More importantly, you get to see exactly how his life and his music (in terms of his style of playing and singing) were related.
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Average Percentile 68.29% from 77 Ratings | ![]() |