Directed by Bruce Weber • 1988 • United States

Drifting dreamily between past and present, this haunting portrait of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker contrasts archival footage of the musician as an impossibly beautiful icon of cool in the 1950s with the tragically ruined heroin junkie he became. Sublimely sculpted in shadowy monochrome, this Academy Award–nominated documentary by photographer Bruce Weber weaves together excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children for an almost unbearably poignant elegy.