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The September Issue
The September 2008 issue of Vogue, weighing nearly five pounds, was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, this documentary tells the story of Vogue's icy, legendary, editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and heading the world of fashion.
Starring Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, Thakoon Panichgul, André Leon Talley, Mario Testino, Jean Paul Gaultier
Directed by R.J. Cutler ('A Perfect Candidate')
Documentary | 1hr 28mins | Rated (PG) | contains coarse language | Origin: USA | Official Site »
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After the unfulfilled promises of Bruno and Coco Avant Chanel, we finally have a film to delight fashionistas. They will lap up this extensive look into the making of the Yellow Pages-sized magazine and, in particular, the horse-trading, the tantrums and the sheer whims of the Pope-like editor Anna Wintour.
Director Cutler deserves credit for managing to get behind the trademark reflective sunglasses to reveal a woman constantly betrayed by her body language (in particular her eyes), ridiculed by her ‘serious journalist’ siblings and determined to stop people being frightened of fashion.
But strangely, Wintour is not the star of the show, with the limelight stolen by her underlings – the flamboyant editor-at-large, Andre Leon Talley, and, most notably, creative director Grace Coddington. A former model, the Welsh woman who started work at Vogue on the same day as Wintour has her own massive ego and isn't afraid to go toe-to-toe with her boss or gripe about her to the camera crew.
Slickly edited, The September Issue will even appeal to those whose interest in fashion barely extends beyond Victoria's Secret catalogues, especially as it confirms that most photos are extensively retouched and reveals that yes, models do enjoy pastries.
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Empire (UK)
4
A splendid study of the forces and passions behind the world’s biggest fashion magazine.
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Hollywood Reporter
Consistent with her ice queen reputation, Wintour is often disconcertingly direct and frequently unfeeling, though not without a dry sense of humor.
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Lumiere Reader (Wellington)
Which photos make it into the final edition? Are there enough Nina Ricci dresses? Will Sienna Miller wear a wig? The achievement of The September Issue is that by the end of the film I actually cared about the answers to these questions.
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New York Times
This entertaining, glib movie is about the maintenance of a brand that Ms. Wintour has brilliantly cultivated since she assumed her place at the top of the editorial masthead in 1988 and which the documentary’s director, R. J. Cutler, has helped polish with a take so flattering he might as well work there.
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NZ Herald (Francesca Rudkin)
4
Well structured, entertaining and revealing documentary.
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Otago Daily Times (Christine Powley)
5
Grace Coddington's (Wintour's hard-pressed creative director) dramatic talent for styling photo shoots steals the film from Wintour's flinty editor's eye.
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Total Film (UK)
3
Brüno-style bitchiness isn’t entirely missing: cover girl Sienna Miller gets a particular hammering, while Vogue’s flamboyant Editor-At-Large André Leon Talley wastes no chance to dish the dirt. But you do question the film’s professional distance, especially when Grace inveigles one of Cutler’s portly cameramen to take part in a photo shoot.
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Urban Cinefile (Australia)
Essentially a dialogue about fashion and the fashion world. We are there at the meetings, the fittings, the catwalks, the shoots and in the corridors of the New York Time Squares offices where politics, creative decisions and high-level stress teeter as if on impossibly high stilettos. We meet designers, assistants, executives and models. The cover shoot in Rome with actress Sienna Miller is an eye-brow arching experience - from the initial meeting, the shoot itself and the process through which the cover is realised. It's what is NOT said that is most interesting...
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Variety (USA)
A dishy and engrossing peek inside the fashion world’s corridors of power -- every bit as slickly packaged as the publication it seeks to uncover.
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