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Let's Get Lost

Directed by Bruce Weber

Release: 1988
Runtime: 120
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Director: Bruce Weber

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let's Get Lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmaker on the life of a jazz legend. Since its release in 1989 Let's Get Lost has introduced a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to the timeless talent of the late Chet Baker.

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"The finest jazz movie ever made."

– David Parkinson, Empire Magazine

"Watching Let's Get Lost, shot in a liquid black-and-white, we are lost in a monotonal, gorgeously shot reverie about Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter whose alabaster-smooth, pretty face and plaintive tones broke hearts."

– Desson Thomson, The Washington Post

"A shimmeringly decadent and fascinating portrait of the West Coast jazz legend Chet Baker."

– Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly

"A stark, haunting and often dryly funny portrait of an all-American hipster-heel in twilight."

– Gene Seymour, Newsday

"A gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic."

– Jim Ridley, The Village Voice

"Weber's documentary serves up an exquisite fusion of filmmaking style and subject matter to serve up a film that captures the essence of cool."

– Beth Accomando, KPBS

"A wide-eyed love letter to a jazz great."

– Ali Catterall, Film4

"It's a stunner, and it's not like any film you've ever seen."

– Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Gallery

A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
A scene from LET'S GET LOST. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.

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Technical Info

  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Color: B&W

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playdates

Venue City Date
4 Star Theater San Francisco 1730606400November 3, 2024
Austin Film Society Austin 1717732800June 7 - June 10, 2024
Belcourt Theatre Nashville 1733720400December 9, 2024
Center For Contemporary Arts Santa Fe 1727150400September 24, 2024
Digital Gym Cinema San Diego 1732856400November 29, 2024
Film Forum New York 1730433600November 1 - November 14, 2024
Hollywood Theatre Portland 1736658000January 12, 2025
Landmark Nuart Theatre Los Angeles 1732251600November 22 - November 28, 2024
Lightbox Film Center Philadelphia 1733893200December 11, 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston 1717560000June 5, 2024
SBIFF's Riviera Theatre Santa Barbara 1732251600November 22 - November 28, 2024
Speed Art Museum Louisville 1730433600November 1 - November 3, 2024
Tropic Cinema Key West 1733979600December 12 - December 18, 2024
Trylon Cinema Minneapolis 1736312400January 8, 2025
Upstate Films - Orpheum Theatre Saugerties 1736744400January 13, 2025
VIFF Centre Vancouver 1732078800November 20 - November 28, 2024