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Win exclusive preview tix for Let’s Get Lost
Wed, 28 May 2008
Metrodome Distribution is re-releasing one of our favourite ever documentaries next weekend, and have offered 3 of our readers the chance to win a pair of tickets for an exclusive preview event on Tuesday 3 June. Let’s Get Lost is the iconic photographer turned filmmaker Bruce Weber’s homage to the legendary jazz musician Chet Baker. An elusive character and extraordinary jazz vocalist and trumpeter, Weber’s portrait captures Baker in all his guises using a combination of excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with the man himself, fellow 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 filmmaker on the life of a jazz legend introducing a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to Baker’s timeless talent. Let’s Get Lost, also the name of a long out-of-print Baker tune, aptly describes the driving force of this man and his music. His James Dean looks and cool sound set Baker apart from the other musicians of his time but his ongoing issues with a narcotic addiction also gave a generation of jazz fans a ‘Doomed Youth’ of their very own. Chet Baker’s life plays out like a Kerouac creation, as did his death (he fell out of an Amsterdam hotel window on Friday 13th, 1988, aged 58) - but out of his life came some of the most lyrical trumpet playing and jazz vocals ever heard.
To win one of 3 pairs of tickets to an exclusive preview screening on Tuesday 3 June, at 6.30pm at VUE West, PLUS a copy of the Limited Edition ‘LET’S GET LOST’ cinema poster designed by Bruce Weber himself, simply answer the following question:
What was ‘Chet’ Baker’s real name?
Send your answer direct to Metrodome by 5pm on Monday 2 June by emailing chet@metrodomegroup.com with SCRIPT FACTORY COMP in the subject field.
What the critics are saying:
“A stunning sensory experience….an intoxicating, poetic study of brilliance” Little White Lies
“Outstanding” Uncut
“A gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic…Stunning” The Village Voice
LET’S GET LOST IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE ON 6 JUNE.
www.myspace.com/bruceandchet
Watch an exclusive unseen Chet music video shot by Bruce Weber on LAST FM: www.last.fm/group/chet+baker