Bruce Weber’s Oscar-Nominated Doc ‘Let’s Get Lost’ Lands 4K Restoration Set To Debut At Lumiere Film Festival, HanWay Acquires Artist’s Catalog

Zac Ntim
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EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Weber’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Let’s Get Lost has received a 4k restoration, which will debut at this year’s Lumiere Film Festival.

Thirty-five years after it won the Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Weber will be present at Lumiere in Lyon, France, to discuss the film’s legacy as well as the restoration process.

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HanWay Films will represent the film for worldwide sales as part of a deal negotiated by Marta Ravani, Sales Director of HanWay The Collections. The deal includes a selection of Bruce Weber’s back catalogue of films including, Broken Noses (1987), Nice Girls Don’t Stay For Breakfast (2018), A Letter to True (2004), and The Treasure Of His Youth: The Photographs Of Paolo Di Paolo (2022). Current confirmed partners for The Bruce Weber Collection are Kino Lorber in North America, The Jokers in France, Longride in Japan, IWonder Pictures in Italy, and FilmIn in Spain.

In Let’s Get Lost, Weber profiles the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life.

The film was restored by the New York-based Cineric, who went back to the 16mm reversal original of the film and made a new 4k HDR scan. The image was cleaned by the crew at Cineric’s Portugal office. The HDR scan revealed detail that hadn’t been seen before in the shadows of the 16mm reversal, so a grade was made in New York by colorist Daniel DeVincent, supervised by Jeff Preiss, the film’s cinematographer, who balanced the additional information with the look of the original release prints. The audio was handled by Audio Mechanics in Los Angeles who produced a new 5.1 mix of the audio. Bruce Weber supervised the complete process.

“We are honored to form a lasting partnership with HanWay Films,” Weber said. “Jeremy Thomas set a high standard and a strong precedent a long time ago for championing the vision of auteurs and strong storytellers, and now as HanWay moves forward under new ownership, we are thrilled to be a part of this collection and in the company of some very fine artists and friends.”

Ravani added: “At HanWay, we are thrilled to have this new Collection, and we look forward to working with Little Bear and Bruce Weber to bring these beautiful documentaries to the world.”

Lumiere Film Festival runs October 14-23.

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