Bruce Weber's chilling biopic Let's Get Lost (1989) may well be one of the most important documents in the legacy of "West Coast cool" jazz icon Chet Baker (trumpet/vocals). Shooting was completed literally months prior to Baker's "accidental" death -- from a fall out of an Amsterdam, Holland, hotel window -- on May 13, 1988. Arguably the strongest motif to emerge not only throughout the film, but more directly at various times during Baker's mere existence, is the salvation the artist found in returning to his craft. To a ...
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Bruce Weber's chilling biopic Let's Get Lost (1989) may well be one of the most important documents in the legacy of "West Coast cool" jazz icon Chet Baker (trumpet/vocals). Shooting was completed literally months prior to Baker's "accidental" death -- from a fall out of an Amsterdam, Holland, hotel window -- on May 13, 1988. Arguably the strongest motif to emerge not only throughout the film, but more directly at various times during Baker's mere existence, is the salvation the artist found in returning to his craft. To a similar effect, regardless of how out of control the musician had become, a solace existed in his music. The nearly two-hour running time combines vintage footage of Baker during his meteoric rise to popularity in the mid-'50s -- including clips from his short-lived career as a B-movie actor -- with the aged, haggard junkie appearing decades older than he was. The first-person conversations with key figures throughout his life provide points of view by those who knew him best. Professionally, musician Jack Shelton, photographer William Claxton, and record producer Dick Bock are called upon. As interesting and insightful as their reminiscences are, it is the complicated web of Baker's personal life that is equally fascinating and disturbing. There are interviews with Baker's mother -- who calls her son "a disappointment" despite his world-renown fame and unquestionable talents -- as well as Baker's third wife, Carol, to whom he was legally married when he died. Plus, comments from his sons and daughter -- whom he all but abandoned. These fly in the face of Baker "the addict" who practically denies their existence. Of course underscoring the entire affair is the timeless and -- unlike the man himself -- ageless music for which he and his fellow first-generation "West Coast cool" alumni were responsible. While the movie is replete with samples of Baker's seminal '50s sides for Pacific Jazz, Riverside, and Columbia, the actual soundtrack for Let's Get Lost (1989) only contains a dozen new selections that were presumably recorded specifically for the project. Proving that he never lost his penchant as an emotive performer, the recent updates of the Great American Songbook entries "Imagination," "Everytime We Say Goodbye," "Blame It on My Youth," and the cover of Elvis Costello's "Almost Blue" are excellent in their indescribable indulgences. As the whole motion picture is shot in black and white, there is an implied link between the nuevo Los Angeles beat scene -- as exemplified by the presence of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea and his coterie of new-school cool -- and that of the late '40s and 1950s. In retrospect, Weber's accuracy in correlating the two is up for debate. However it makes for unquestionably pretty pictures, if not a hopelessly anachronistic viewpoint of pop culture's cyclical nature. ~ Lindsay Planer, Rovi
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