DISQUS

newcritics: Let’s Get Lost: When Bruce Weber met Chet Baker

  • Dan Leo · 2 years ago
    I wouldn't have wanted to be buddies with Chet Baker but he sure did put out some good music. Charlie Parker, Anita O'Day, Billie...well the list goes on and on, people with incredibly fucked-up lives who made just beautiful music. I remember once I was playing some Nina Simone for this dude, and he said something like, "I heard she could be a real pain in the ass." And I said, "Who gives a shit?"
  • Manny Maher · 2 years ago
    I hear you.
    The only thing I didn't like about this movie was that Weber kept cutting in on Baker's songs. It is very much a movie about the artist and his vices, not the art itself.