The September Issue

R.J. Cutler has crafted a subversively entertaining documentary detailing the blood, sweat and tears Vogue editor Anna Wintour exacted from her staff to produce the mammoth 2007 issue of the fashion Bible. It’s all pre-economic collapse, meaning we get to watch the fashionably rich enjoy their privileges while everyone else, well, let them eat cake.

"Girlie heaven!" actress Sienna Miller exclaims, stepping into the Times Square digs of Vogue for her stint as cover girl. "The September Issue," a slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary, is equally awed by the office's racks of haute couture. But beyond the cutting-edge froufrou, the film is also a portrait of unapologetic girlie power: smart, talented, competitive women working [...] Vai alla recensione »

"The September Issue" : coup d'oeil rapide dans les coulisses du "Vogue" américain Héroïne malgré elle du livre Le diable s'habille en Prada, puis du film qui en fut adapté, où elle fut incarnée par Meryl Streep, Anna Wintour, célèbre rédactrice en chef du Vogue américain, fait aujourd'hui l'objet d'un documentaire. Mais n'espérez pas la voir prise en défaut, en train de se curer le nez ou d'humilier [...] Vai alla recensione »

“The September Issue,” a documentary about the creation of a single, very fat issue of American Vogue in a far-off gilded age (i.e., 2007), has little to say about fashion, the real ins and outs of publishing or the inner workings and demons of the magazine’s notoriously demanding meanie-in-chief, Anna Wintour. Rather, this entertaining, glib movie is about the maintenance of a brand that Ms.

Of all the fierce, glamourpuss ladies he met while shooting “The September Issue,” his documentary about the inner workings of Vogue magazine, the filmmaker R. J. Cutler found one especially intimidating: an Englishwoman who has spent decades on a high rung of the masthead. She is a well-connected former model and an editor of extraordinary taste known both for her influence on the fashion industry [...] Vai alla recensione »