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 Amsterdam hotel window at the beginning of the Zeedijk in 1988. There is still a bronze plaque there to mark where he died.

Even if you don't know of Chet Baker, or 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. It's bittersweet and tender, as it captures the ageing musician after a lifetime of drugs and women... the man is almost worn out, but still ploughing 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. Much of it was shot in Italy, and the mood has such a gorgeous drifting quality, as we see Chet wander and reflect. He is asked hard-hitting questions, but they don't make the slightest dent on him... he had become untouchable. It's just magical, and is the most elegant documentary I've ever seen.

As one viewer noted "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".

This will be a high-definition screening.