Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5055002553868
Format: PAL
Label: Metrodome
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Metrodome
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Metrodome
Region Code: 2
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Metrodome
Theatrical Release Date: 1988

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Rating: - a dream of a dreamy biopic
I saw this film on its theatrical release, way back in '88/89, as a part of a run of late night movies on jazz themes, screened at the Cambridge Arts Cinema, as it was then known. I was completely enthralled and enchanted. Some films are intensely and self-consciously didactic, or analytical, or escapist, romantic, challenging, soothing or whatever... This film seems to be a wonderfully un-self-conscious mixture of biography, homage, celebration, voyeurism and more besides, all delivered with a ... Read More

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Rating: - Just great
Bruce Weber's photography turns the drug and alcohol ravaged face of Chet Baker into a landscape to be explored, and then shows you him as a beautiful young James Dean lookalike.

The music is extraordinary, and carries the film through what might have been its more self indulgent moments. It is cleverly set into context by the commentary from all the talking heads.

Some of the speakers are knowledgeable and insightful, but there is plenty of pleasure is to be gained from ... Read More

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Rating: - Award winning biography. Doesn't get any better than this !
At last - my prayers have been answered. I have had this on VHS since it came out in '88. Alot of fans have been waiting for the DVD release (not bootleg) to appreciate both the documentary and music qualities. For anyone with the slightest interest in modern music or cinematography, this is a must for your collection. It must have been very hard for Bruce Weber to portray one of his music idols in such an honest way. But it works and allows an underlying story of the effects of heroin addiction to ... Read More

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