For Carmen Ejogo, getting to know jazz great Chet Baker meant getting to know the women in his life. Ejogo stars opposite Ethan Hawke in Born to Be Blue, a film about the tragic trumpet player ...

Watch a film clip from "Born to Be Blue," starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo and Callum Keith Rennie. Photo: IFC Films “Born to Be Blue” calls itself a reimagining of Chet Baker’s comeback ...

Born to Be Blue is a fictionalized account of Baker’s life, ... Cast: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie, Joe Cobden, Tony Nappo. Writer-director: Robert Budreau.

A few minutes into Born to Be Blue, Robert Budreau’s film about jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, it seems like we might be on rocky ground.After a 1954 gig at the famed New York club ...

‘Born to Be Blue’ Review: Ethan Hawke Hits the Right Notes as Jazz Great Chet Baker. Hawke and Carmen Ejogo star in a biopic about the thrill of performance and the depth of addiction that ...

It takes a moment to get our footing at the start — writer-director Robert Budreau doesn't make it easy. The film begins as Baker, on the mend from the heroin addiction that almost killed him in ...

Carmen Ejogo plays Jane, an actress who becomes Baker’s girlfriend and support system, encouraging him as he works his way back in the California jazz scene — from ... “Born to Be Blue ...

In “Born To Be Blue,” Ethan Hawke plays the heroin-addicted jazz trumpeter Chet Baker as a kind of guy version of Marilyn Monroe ... (Carmen Ejogo), who was to play his ex-wife in a movie.

Carmen Ejogo is set to star opposite Mahershala Ali in ... English-Nigerian actress Ejogo is best known for her performances as Coretta Scott King in Ava DuVernay’s Selma and in Born to Be Blue.

“Born to Be Blue” recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentations section. Budreau wrote and directed the film, which co-stars Carmen Ejogo and ...

In a cinematic landscape awash with hairsplittingly literal musical biopics, it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker film, “Born to Be Blue,” is not a ...