Let's Get Lost (New Restoration)

Name: Let's Get Lost (New Restoration)
Start: 2024-12-11T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-11T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148-16ND, United States

Schedule

Wed Dec 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148-16ND, United States | Philadelphia, PA

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let's Get Lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmkaer on the life of a jazz legend. Since its release in 1989 Let's Get Lost has introduced a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to the timeless talent of the late Chet Baker. (Bruce Weber, USA, 1989, 120 min.)

AFTER-PARTY: Join us at 9:30pm for a special Let's Get Lost post-screening after-party at 48 Record Bar (48 S. 2nd St. Philadelphia, PA 19106). A selection west coast "cool" jazz records will soundtrack the evening and a portion of the proceeds from the bar will support Lightbox. (Must be 21 with ID to drink)