TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd

LET'S GET LOST (1988)
Directed by Bruce Weber
120 minutes
In English

As most people in Amsterdam know, Chet Baker, the famous jazz trumpeter/singer and notorious drug addict, stumbled out of his hotel window (which is near the central station) in 1988. There is still a bronze plaque there to mark where he died.

Even if you don't know of Chet Baker, or even if you don't care too much about jazz in general, this is still a wonderful and penetrating documentary that everyone should see at one point. Its bittersweet and tender, as it captures the aging musician...after a lifetime of drugs and women...almost worn-out but still plowing ahead. Like a character from a Rimbaud poem he believed that you had to just burn everything you have until the lights go out. This film captures him just before those lights indeed went out.

Bruce Weber is one of the world\'s leading fashion photographers, and in this work he has created a dazzling grainy black and white film which serves as a swan song to this complicated and evasive character. It must rank as one of the best portrait films ever made. It's just magical.

\"Weber has created just about the only documentary that works like a novel, inviting you to read between the lines of Baker\'s personality until you touch the secret sadness at the heart of his beauty\".

I wanted to screen this film for ages, and finally its possible- Don\'t miss it!

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2

CINEMA DERIVE
OVERTOOM 301
20:30 Membership 4 Euros for the evening



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