Let's Get Lost

Sunday 27th July 2008 | Double bill with Chop Suey book tickets

2hrs. USA 1988. Directed by Bruce Weber.

Renowned photographer/filmmaker Weber’s Academy Award-nominated film about the late jazz great Chet Baker. His James Dean looks and cool sound set Baker apart from other musicians of his time but his narcotic addiction also gave a generation of jazz fans a Doomed Youth of their very own. Baker’s life and death played out like a Kerouac creation, but out of his life came some of the most lyrical trumpet playing and jazz vocals ever heard. Following the elusive and digressive nature of his subject, Weber went on the road with Baker from the West Coast to the East Coast to Europe, during what turned out to be the last year of the musician’s life. Weber captured some of Baker’s last recording sessions, rare performance footage and interviews with his personal associates.