Arts & Entertainment
‘Let’s Get Lost’
is viewer treat
By John Payne
Staff Reviewer
“LET’S GET LOST.” (A film
by Bruce Weber):
* Jazz virtuoso Chet Baker’s life
plays across the screen in black and
while like the smoky riffs of his hom,
painfully etched forever in the
memories of those who knew him. As
filmmaker Bruce Weber says, “Ev
eryone has their own Chet Baker
story.”
“Let’s Get Lost” is Weber’s own
endearing, often sad, interpretation
of Baker.
Baker rose to popularity in mid
1950s West Coast jazz clubs, where
women and photographers were
mesmerized by his good looks and
camera presence. Known as the
James Dean of the jazz world, one
gets an idea of how Dean’s life itself
may have unfolded.
Personal interviews are the heart
of the film. Fellow musicians remem
ber him as an “intuitive musician”
who rarely practiced. Things came
easy to Baker in the early days.
Baker lived his entire life with a
severe heroin addiction which dated
back to impromptu jam sessions in
the beatnik nightclubs of New York
and Paris. In 1962 he spent 16 months
in jail after Italian police caught him
shooting up in a Rome bathroom.
But this is hardly a preachy melo
drama about the evils of drug abuse.
It’s an insightful, highly romantic
documentary about the ecstasy of
youth, the sensation of riding down
Santa Monica Boulevard in a Cadil
lac convertible with the top down.
Weber, known primarily for fash
ion photography and various ho
Courtesy of She Won Film Theater
“Let’s Get Lost”: an elegant, unsettling look at Chet Baker
mocrotic fare, has created a stylish
black and white montage. “Let’s Get
Lost’’ is a visual feast throughout,
mixing still photographs, old footage
of Baker as an Italian B movie star
and studio clips of the master record
ing new tracks.
In 1968, Baker was severely
beaten outside a San Francisco hotel
during a drug transaction. He turned
to vocals and fell further into the
heroin abyss.
Last May in Amsterdam during
the compilation of the film, Baker fell
to his death from a hotel window on
Friday the 13th. He was 57, but
looked 100.
“Let’s Get Lost’’ isn’t perfect.
Many of the vocal scenes drag on, and
some of the interviews are pointless,
but Baker’s powerful persona and
music are likable. And visually, the
film is a masterpiece. (Sheldon Film
Theater)
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