Including the tracks: 'Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Original Version)' 'West End Girls' 'Love Comes Quickly' 'Suburbia' 'It's A Sin' 'What Have I Done To Deserve This?' 'Rent' 'Always On My Mind' 'Where The Streets Have No Name' 'Can You Forgive Her?' 'Go West' 'Liberation' 'Yesterday When I Was Mad' 'Single' 'A Red Letter Day' 'You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk' 'Home And Dry' 'Domino Dancing' and 'Go West (Extended Version)'.
Directed by internationally renowned photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber the Oscar nominated Let's Get Lost offers an incredibly powerful insight into the life of the late jazz great Chet baker. Travelling with the exclusive icon Weber weaves together the life story of a man they called the James Dean of the jazz world charting his incredible rise to international fame and adulation and his tragically rapid demise into womanising and drug addiction. The film uses excerpts from rare performance footage and candid interviews with Baker musicians friends and battling ex wives in what turned out to be the last year of his life. His movie star looks and cool sound set Baker apart but his endless battle with a narcotic addiction also gave a generation of 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 age 58) but out of life came some of the most lyrical trumpet playing and jazz vocals ever heard.
A must have for all fans of photography music and Bruce Weber this incredible film invites you into Weber's intimate world of the Chop Suey club. For over four years Bruce Weber photographed one subject: Peter Johnson. What began as a photographic journey to document Peter's transition from boyhood into manhood led to the making of the film Chop Suey. A deeply personal film feeling very much like a film journal or scrapbook Chop Suey is an homage to all things the filmmaker loves most. Mixing film archival footage still photography and a rich and expansive soundtrack boasting over 65 songs Chop Suey is one of Weber's greatest.
Broken Noses
Bruce Weber is a professed animal lover and this film centres on his own dogs a family of gorgeous golden retrievers including True. A Letter To True is a stunning look at the affection loyalty and unconditional love displayed by these animals - which the filmmaker sees as a metaphor for peace and hope in the world. In a highly personalised commentary Weber interweaves his personal obsessions: music of the 50's and 60's home movies of Dirk Bogarde in Provence; conversations with Elizabeth Taylor (another great dog lover) recollections of friendships past and speculation about how our lives have been changed by the events of 9/11. Tying these various stranda together with a poet's logic A Letter To True is a little like staying up late with Bruce Weber listening to great music and peeking into the mind of a world class connoisseur.
Four of Bruce Weber's finest films Let's Get Lost Chop Suey A Letter To True and Broken Noses (available only as part of this release) are brought together in one highly collectable box set that also features a vast amount of extras including a number of Weber's short films behind the scenes footage and exclusive photography.
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