The Village Voice, June 6th, 2007
Let's Get Lost
Directed byBruce Weber
June 8 through 28, Film Forum
Lost Boy
MIA for 14 years, Bruce Weber's stunning Chet Baker portrait resurfaces at Film Forum
BY JIM RIDLEY
Call it The Death of the Cool. Shot as the vinyl LP was nearing the off ramp to oblivion, as rap and MTV were shoving jazz even farther to the margins, Let's Get Lost stands as a gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic. Bruce Weber's transfixing 1988 portfolio of the artist-ravaged jazz trumpeter Chet Baker-as a junkie wraith unmoored in time seems doubly poignant almost 20 yea...
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