WHAT THE CRITICS SAY...

“Let’s Get Lost is Weber’s Remembrance of Things Past, with this strung-out trumpeter as his madeleine.”
– Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

"HAUNTING... HEARTBREAKING... This is the hot white light of Fellini's "sweet life," of midnight after-parties and the modern bebop moment."
- Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

"Stands as a gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic."
- Jim Ridley, The Village Voice

"Remains a stunning object of scrutiny... It's the music doc as film noir, with a vampirish city-of-night gleam that suits the subject and his darkly romantic sound. All these years later, the inky shadows and stabbing high-contrast light of Jeff Preiss's black-and-white camera work still look as if they'd been freshly dredged from the undertow of Baker's long good-bye."
– Jim Ridley, The Village Voice

“HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL... redolent of both contemporary notions of glamour and of the late-1950’s jazz mystique.”
– Janet Maslin, New York Times

“ABOUT THE NATURE OF COOL... a romantic valentine to the 50s.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice

“JAZZ MUSIC AND FILM HAVE RARELY BEEN SPUN TOGETHER MORE EVOCATIVELY...
looks likes a high-gloss fashion spread for la dolce vita, speaking on one hand to one’s
deepest adolescent fantasies of the glamorous life of being young, beautiful and hip and footloose
on international bohemian playgrounds.”
– Stephen Holden, New York Times

"RAPTUROUSLY BEAUTIFUL... One of the coolest movies ever made!" - Phil Nugent, Nerve.com

"A gripping and affecting film with a striking noirish look." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

“A BITTERSWEET MASTERPIECE... Any film with LET’S GET LOST’s combination of sadness and joy, romance and tragedy, fact and mystery must not be missed.”
– American Film Magazine

“An original, deeply eccentric movie. Gives Mr. Baker a luxurious fantasy world, a holiday condo of the imagination.”
– Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

“A tragic and dissolute life is vividly recalled in Weber’s marvelous documentary... Mark the date and make an effort to see this extradinary homage not only to one of the most unusual musicians of all time, but also to the Doomed Youth of the cool jazz age that made him an icon. There has never been a film about a wayward hero in the smoke neon of jazz music quite like Let’s Get Lost... A film of small insights, large dimensions and plenty of soul, like the man himself.”
– Rex Reed, New York Observer

"Extraordinarily honest...corrosive yet stylistically elegant...simultaneously loving and realistic."
– Jay Scott, Globe and Mail

“Enduring Fascination! Remains powerful even now... among the few movies that deal with the mysterious, complicated emotional transactions involved in the creation of pop culture.”
– Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

“Chet Baker’s face, and the extraordinary ways in which Bruce Weber has photographed it, encapsulate the story of Baker’s life in a succession of ghostly, indelible images that are once hauntingly beautiful and desperately sad...a tremendously visual composite representing the different stages of Baker’s troubled life.”
– Janet Maslin, New York Times

“A VISUAL TREAT! Ceaselessly seductive.” – Steve Dollar, The New York Sun

“A darkly moody piece of cinematic poetry.” – Jack Mathews, Daily News

“A FULL-ON EVENT! The type of scorching slow burn Baker himself was famous for...
as crystalline a portrait of its era as any.”
– Stu VanAirsdale, The Reeler. Click here to read interview with Bruce Weber