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Let's Get Lost (1988) is a documentary about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.

Essentially a two-hour love letter to its subject (Weber spent about a million dollars of his own money on the film), Let’s Get Lost assembles a strange and wonderful group of Baker fans, ranging from ex-associates to ex-wives, to paint a fascinating portrait of a man who was as self-absorbed in life as he was talented on record and stage.

Weber’s film traces the man’s career from the 1950s, when he was in his prime, playing with jazz greats like Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan, to the 1980s, when he had become a skid row junkie unable to get a decent gig. By juxtaposing these two decades, Weber presents a sharp contrast between the younger, handsome Baker — the statuesque idol who resembled a dreamy mix of James Dean and Jack Kerouac — to what he became, “a seamy looking drugstore cowboy cum derelict,” as J. Hoberman put it in his Village Voice review.

Let’s Get Lost begins near the end of Baker’s life, on the beaches of Santa Monica, and ends at the glitz and glamour of the Cannes Film Festival. Weber uses these moments in the present as bookends to the historic footage contained in the bulk of the film. This documentation ranges from vintage photographs by William Claxton in 1953 to appearances on The Steven Allen Show and kitschy, low budget Italian films Baker did for quick money. And even though much of Baker’s past is captured only in still photos, Weber and his director of photography, Jeff Preiss, use creative camera techniques to energize these static pictures in a way that almost brings them lovingly to life.

Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, Let's Get Lost was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, Features in 1989.

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