Internationally renowned photographerfilmmaker bruce weber created a stunning feature with lets get lost, his academy award nominated film about. Chet baker, 58, is recording jimmy van heusen and johnny burkes imagination. Bruce webers lets get lost international documentary association. The film uses excerpts from italian b movies, rare performance footage and candid interviews with baker, musicians, friends, battling exwives and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. Let s get lost is a 1988 american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by bruce weber. Lets get lost is a 1988 american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by bruce weber. Bruce webers lets get lost international documentary. Lets get lost 1988 documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict chet baker. Watch lets get lost 1989 full movie free streaming. Bruce weber s film attempts to put the pieces of this shattered soul back together and paint a portrait of one of jazzs quintessential legends. This first edition, signed by bruce weber is available at bauman rare books.
But the most resonant thing about chets music is the sincerity, the sense that there is a tortured soul singing and playing. Email if you want or hit our new business class contact button at bruce weber chet baker, the final scene, filming let s get lost, cannes film festival 1987 see more. Celeste ng, ann patchett, min jin lee and others on the books that. Early on in let s get lost, bruce weber s 1989 documentary about chet baker, the jazz trumpeter is asked if hed like a glass of wine. Weber, bruce aquatint copperplate process by which the plate is bitten by. This first edition by bruce weber is available at bauman rare books. Lets get lost by bruce weber bruce weber, paul baker. Published in it has been the one great rare most desirable weber book ever since. Let s get lost directed by bruce weber documentary, biography, music not rated. Produced in conjunction with bruce weber s first featurelength documentary film, this beautifully designed and printed largeformat edition was issued in a small, selfpublished print run to promote let s get lost the renowned fashion photographers loveletter to the iconic late jazz musician chet baker. But as weber s first images of lets get lost came up on the screen, i knew i was in for a spiritual experience.
Weber found the perfect subject in baker, a remarkably photogenic figure. Let s get lost by weber, bruce and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Such is the case with bruce webers absorbing documentaryportrait lets get. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from bakers.
Pure cinema chet baker in lets get lost, 1988, dir. Chet baker lets get lost bruce weber part 2 youtube. Surfaces are everything in let s get lost, but they are gorgeously stylish surfaces, redolent of both. Bruce weber s 25th anniversary of let s get lost at the venice film festival 20 bad boys the legendary fashion photographer and filmmaker is at the venice film festival this week.
In a way, i think director bruce weber was lucky that his footage was shot so soon before bakers death, because the film wouldnt be as notable if not for its. This first edition book was published in new york by little bear films as a companion to the film. Scarce weber title published as a companion to the film. Travelling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter chet baker, bruce weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great.
Chet baker lets get lost bruce weber part 9 youtube. Bruce webers 25th anniversary of lets get lost at the. Director bruce weber on filming chet baker music the. Since filming chet baker in let s get lost, bruce weber has searched in vain for someone with such magic. Theres a moment in lets get lost, bruce weber s shimmeringly decadent and fascinating portrait of the west coast jazz legend chet baker its being given a limited national rerelease. Chet bakers face, and the extraordinary ways in which bruce weber has. Purveyors of fine new, out of print, and rare books on photography, art, fashion, design, architecture, cinema, food, and music since 1984. Lets get lost was less a typical biography than a film odyssey that took us from the. Lets get lost captures the allure of chet baker the. Lets get lost first edition bruce weber bauman rare books.
Browse and buy a vast selection of bruce weber collections. Let s get lost is a penetrating oscarnominated documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter chet baker 19291988. I dont think johnny ever read that book and he never made that film. Bruce webers oscarnominated documentary prints the legend in its. At the very end of bruce webers seductive, unsettling lets get lost. At the very end of bruce weber s seductive, unsettling let s get lost, the movies subject, the semilegendary cooljazz trumpeter and singer chet baker, looks back on the shooting of. Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter chet baker, the filmmaker bruce weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great.
Bruce weber s documentary on jazz artist chet baker was nominated for an academy award. His voice isnt quite as soft and papery as it used to be, but the image like every shot of baker in bruce weber s let s get lost is about the face, not so much the music. After a generous amount of screen time devoted to bakers american career, from his days with charlie bird parker and gerry mulligan to the formation of his own combo, the film dwells upon bakers lengthy tenure in europe. Produced in conjunction with bruce webers first featurelength documentary film, this beautifully designed and printed largeformat edition was issued in a small, selfpublished print run to promote lets get lost the renowned fashion photographers loveletter to the iconic late jazz musician chet baker. Bruce weber lets lets get lost a film starring chet baker. See more ideas about bruce weber, male models and hot guys. The title is derived from the song lets get lost by jimmy mchugh and frank loesser from the 1943 film happy go lucky, which baker recorded for pacific records.
You could turn off the sound and just watch the images. The oscarnominated 1988 documentary lets get lostwhich has just been. Filmmaker bruce weber was still in post production on his chet baker documentary lets get lost when he got the news that the jazz trumpeter had fallen to his death from a hotel window in amsterdam. Weber s gift for gorgeous black and white photography made him famous. Bruce weber studied in princeton and at the new school for social research in new york. Let s get lost, is a 1988 documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker, it was written and directed by bruce weber. Surfaces are everything in lets get lost, but they are gorgeously. The film uses excerpts from italian b movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with baker, musicians, friends, battling exwives and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. This unique fanbook was produced to coincide with the release of let. Of particular interest are the clips culled from bakers. This everrare lets get lost film journal accompanied the documentarys. The director remembers a musician who wanted to be as free as a bird.
Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from bakers earlier life and some modernday performances. Rumors that jazz legend chet baker was murdered started shortly after his death. Final scene from let s get lost, directed by bruce weber, documentary about chet baker. Find release information for let s get lost 2000 bruce weber on allmovie. Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict chet baker. Director bruce weber on filming chet baker music the guardian. Lets get lost begins near the end of bakers life on the sunkissed.