#LET'S GET LOST

[playablezelda]

i was so enamored with the first image from this photoset that i had to draw it as my beloved oc june montgomery and her bestie/boyfriend/partner in crime luca dornbush

[theoscarsproject]

Let's Get Lost (1988). Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.

What a documentary! An incredibly well-directed, harrowing, tender portrait of jazz musician, Chet Baker, made only months before his death at the age of 58. The juxtaposition between the dynamic young musician and the ruined older one, after being ravaged by drugs, is tragic to say the least, but everyone seems to enter it both honestly and with compassion. Just really, really good filmmaking. 9/10.

[its-usef]

من حوالي عشر ايام كده wizzair اعلنو عن رحلة طيران مجهولة الوجهة "مش المرة الأولى" اللي هو انت هتحجز معانا وسيبلنا نفسك ومتقلقش هنروقك ومش هتعرف انت مخطوف على فين لغايه قبل مانعمل landing وكله تحت شعار let's get lost

والحقيقه اني برغم اني مش بحب المجهول ومبثقش في قرارات حد غيري الا اني محتاج اجرب الرحلة دي فشخ في يوم من الايام 😂❤️ خصوصا اني مؤخرا بقيت محتاج حد ياخد قرارات ويخططلي عني

[xinu1941-1966]

the movie [Let's Get Lost/chet baker] poser 1988

photo : Bruce Weber

#chet baker

#Let's Get Lost

#Bruce Weber

#movie poster

[havaforever]

LET'S GET LOST - Ce biopic très stylé en noir et blanc, n'échappe hélas pas aux apories du genre : dès qu'il n'est plus question de musique, ça devient ennuyeux. Et ça l'est bien souvent.

Weber n'arrive pas à tenir sur le sujet. Il privilégie les petites histoires relativement à la grande, celle de la légende. A laisser la parole aussi longuement aux familles, et particulièrement aux ex-femmes, le film glisse dans l'aigreur et le ressentiment. Chet et sa trompette disparaissent du film, et ce ne sont que chamailleries qui restent sur l'avant de la scène.

Concrètement, Let's get lost se scinde en deux temps. La première partie introduit le programme du film, résumé par le seul titre, littéralement traduit par "Laissons nous perdre". Plus que de décrire la vie de Chet Baker et d'esquisser son parcours professionnelle, les premières bobines saisissent l'essence de l'homme par le biais de ses musiques et des photographies sur lesquelles il apparaît.

Sur fond de jazz avec Gerry Mulligan ou de solo doux voix-trompette, rien n'est réellement relaté des anecdotes biographiques de Baker, mais tout est exprimé des formes de son art. Pour réussir à dresser l'image informelle du talent si singulier de Baker, Webber mêle dans un imbroglio d'images, de sons et de musiques et différents objets évoquant le musicien. C'est un labyrinthe lyrique qui nous perd dans l'identité confuse du trompettiste.

La seconde partie du film, qui apparaît indistinctement, prend une voie plus linéaire, et fait appel à davantage de témoignages. Tant et plus qu'on en arrive évidemment aux règlements de compte : à la lutte des familles pour la gloire de Baker. Ce second temps qui opte pour le compte rendu anecdotique des aléas de la vie de Baker, calfeutre progressivement la belle poésie introductive.

NOTE 13/20 - Film stylisé qui s'acharne à percer le mystère, dont il épouse les ombres, de cette beauté brisée qui s'enfonce dans la nuit.

[bitter69uk]

“There are many shades of cool and different ways to come by it … but only Chet Baker was able to make cool jazz sound like the purest expression of self-love … Baker uses his voice like a horn, abstaining from any vocal inflection that would suggest real emotion or even the existence of anything outside his pretty boy dreamworld. Baker’s singing on “I Fall in Love Too Easily” is the music of exquisite dysfunction. Here is where he differs from his fifties twin, James Dean, whose cool wasn’t designed to contain the hot, troubled emotions that seeped out around the edges. Chet Baker was cool jazz carried to its logical, even pathological, conclusion.” 

/ From “Cool jazz: the sound of one finger snapping” by Joseph Hooper in Details magazine, May 1993 / 

Died on this day 35 years ago in Amsterdam under murky circumstances: doomed, ethereal and heroin-ravaged jazz trumpeter and crooner Chet Baker (23 December 1929 – 13 May 1988). For anyone curious about Baker’s story, reading James Gavin's haunting 2002 biography Deep in A Dream is de rigueur. Pictured: portrait of Baker by Richard Avedon taken on 16 January 1986. As Gavin recalls, Avedon’s photo shoot “depicted a ghastly vision of death in progress. The harsh black-and-white close-ups gave Baker the appearance of a man lying on the operating table, light blazing down on him.”

[goldengenprint]

[pcktknife]

she could stand to be a bit more sharky

[soranker]

98 lovemail doodles >_<

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Let's Get Lost | Author: Adi Alsaid | Publisher: Harlequin Teen (2014)

[ominouspuff]

pulling strings

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[egophiliac]

should've just let Vil be the one to fly, it would've gone SO much easier. 😔

also HEY how are everyone else's pulls going, because I have had the most RIDICULOUS luck, seriously, halloween magic is 100% real

[xinu1941-1966]

the movie [Let's Get Lost/chet baker] poser 1988

photo : Bruce Weber

#chet baker

#Let's Get Lost

#Bruce Weber

#movie poster

[bitter69uk]

“There are many shades of cool and different ways to come by it … but only Chet Baker was able to make cool jazz sound like the purest expression of self-love … Baker uses his voice like a horn, abstaining from any vocal inflection that would suggest real emotion or even the existence of anything outside his pretty boy dreamworld. Baker’s singing on “I Fall in Love Too Easily” is the music of exquisite dysfunction. Here is where he differs from his fifties twin, James Dean, whose cool wasn’t designed to contain the hot, troubled emotions that seeped out around the edges. Chet Baker was cool jazz carried to its logical, even pathological, conclusion.”

/ From “Cool jazz: the sound of one finger snapping” by Joseph Hooper in Details magazine, May 1993 /

Died on this day in Amsterdam under murky circumstances: doomed, ethereal and heroin-ravaged jazz trumpeter and crooner Chet Baker (23 December 1929 – 13 May 1988). For anyone curious about Baker’s story, reading James Gavin's haunting 2002 biography Deep in A Dream is de rigueur. Pictured: portrait of Baker by William Claxton, 1954. My favourite Chet Baker album will always be Baker’s Holiday (1965), in which he reinterprets Billie Holiday standards.

Chet Baker  *December 23, 1929

[bluegiragi]

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