LET'S GET LOST

Year: 1988
UK: Metrodome Distribution
Cast: Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker, Paul Baker, Dean Baker, Missy Baker, Dick Bock, William F Claxton, Hersh Hamel, Chris Isaak, Lisa Marie, Andy Minsker, Jack Sheldon, Lawrence Trimble, Joyce Night Tucker, Diane Vavra, Ruth Young
Director: Bruce Weber
Country: USA
UK: 120 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and drug references
UK Release Date: 6 June 2008 (Limited Release)
UK DVD Release Date: 28 July 2008

Synopsis

Travelling 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.

DVD EXTRAS

Special Features

A brand new 25 min film by Bruce Weber about the experience of making the film called - Looking for Chet again in all the familiar places
A kodachrome reel of footage shot during the making of the film by DOP Jeff Preiss
Two unseen music videos of Chet Baker songs shot and edited by Bruce Weber
A short film by Bruce Weber called "The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society"
A booklet of Chet Baker photos and in some packs exclusive postcards of Chet Baker
Theatrical Trailer
Trailers to Bruce's other films