Let’s Get Lost by Bruce Weber

The 1988 film Let’s Get Lost, directed by photographer Bruce Weber, is a fascinating portrait of legendary jazz trumpeter and style icon Chet Baker. It is not a classic documentary, but rather a dreamy film noir that interweaves scenes of the elder Baker with images from his heyday. In doing so, Weber uniquely captures the appeal and many flaws of the trumpeter who eventually succumbed to his destructive lifestyle. Four months after filming ended, Chet Baker died after falling from a hotel window in Amsterdam.
Let’s Get Lost won the Cinecritica Award at the 1988 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1989. This classic film has undergone a stunning 4K restoration and is being re-released.
Bruce Weber (American, b. 1946) is perhaps best known for his fashion photography and for putting the male body in the spotlight, both as a fashion medium and as a subject of fine art, in the 1980s. With his casual photographs of handsome, fresh-faced, and athletic young American men, Weber changed the way the world viewed masculinity. Weber also has a rich body of cinematic work, including Broken Noses (1987), Let’s Get Lost (1989), Chop Suey (2001) and A Letter to True (2004), an anti-war documentary that premiered at the Berlinale.