September Issue

Theatrical Release Date: 2009 08 28 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 031398117537

Studio: Lionsgate

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Mild Language]

Summary: Vogue has been the most powerful and best-respected fashion magazine in the world for decades, and each year the journal devotes a fall issue to the designs and designers that the editors feel will be influential in the coming year. The September 2007 issue of Vogue, that year's annual Fall Fashion issue, became the biggest single issue in the magazine's long history, and filmmaker R.J. Cutler was given unprecedented access to Vogue's creative team as the issue was being prepared. The September Issue is a documentary which focuses on Vogue editor Anna Wintour as she visits the annual Fashion Week shows, accepts or dismisses the latest creations of the biggest names in fashion, works with the models, photographers, and writers who help bring her vision to the page, and labors with her staff to determine what the world's fashionistas will be wearing for the next 12 months. The September Issue received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it received an award for excellence in documentary cinematography. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Business [nf]

Awards: Film Presented – Sundance Film Festival Film Presented – Silverdocs Film Festival

Features: cc
Disc one:
Audio commentary with director R. J. Cutler
Deleted scenes
Exclusive behind-the-scenes photos taken by director of photography Bob Richman
Theatrical trailer
Disc two:
Over 20 additinal deleted scenes with over 1 hour of extra footage featuring Vogue's Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington and Andr? Leon Talley, along with designers John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Thakoon, Vera Wang

September Issue

Format: DVD

Release Date: 02/23/2010

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- The September Issue
1. Nyc 2007 [8:41]
2. Vogue / Retailers Breakfast [8:47]
3. Anna's History [10:11]
4. Thakoon & Oscar [8:47]
5. Six Weeks Until Closing [9:59]
6. Day Before Paris [7:14]
7. Paris Couture [8:51]
8. Andr? Plays Tennis [9:17]
9. Grace Reflects [4:18]
10. Color Block, Take Two [5:52]
11. Closing [2:42]
12. End Credits [5:08]

Kimber Myers

Just like its magazine subject, The September Issue begins and ends with Anna Wintour. R.J. Cutler's documentary appropriately opens with a close-up on the Vogue editor in chief, who dictates seemingly every aspect of the magazine's production as well as fashion itself. In the film, she lends her insight to designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and rising star Thakoon Panichgul, while one observer calls her the most powerful woman in the world. Vogue is fashion's bible, Wintour its god, and The September Issue captures divine inspiration as she and her staff craft the magazine's biggest issue yet: the September 2007 edition, which weighed almost five pounds and boasted 840 pages. "Less is more," declares Wintour in the months of preparation for the massive issue, but it's hard to see where this mandate fits in with the magazine's fashion or editorial philosophy. However, as much as the film is about the iconic editor, it also focuses on Vogue creative director Grace Coddington. The Welsh model-turned-editor constantly engages the powerful editor in chief in debate, as Wintour wages a war on black and Coddington tries to introduce soft photography to the magazine's pages. The September Issue focuses on this battle of aesthetics, and Coddington is the only one who stands up to Wintour's withering glances. As creative director, Coddington seems more involved with her fashion shoots than her peers at other magazines, and she certainly takes it personally when Wintour removes her work from the final product. Even though Wintour was the not-so-thinly-veiled basis for The Devil Wears Prada's Miranda Priestly, she comes across as more human in this documentary than she did in Lauren Weisberger's roman ? clef or even Meryl Streep's portrayal. She is undeniably cold, but she is a remarkably successful woman in power. Scenes with her daughter add another layer to the much-talked-about persona, as do the moments where she discusses her upbringing and family situation. Director Cutler began his career producing the Bill Clinton campaign documentary The War Room, before he moved into the director's chair with the Oliver North-focused film A Perfect Candidate. There's plenty of office politics in The September Issue, but this is largely a light, entertaining film. Juno's music supervisor, Margaret Yen, underscores the frantic energy of the action with a soundtrack featuring songs from indie rock bands such as VHS or Beta, LCD Soundsystem, and Of Montreal. All the scenes featuring Vogue editor at large Andr? Leon Talley prove that the best characters aren't necessarily fictional. The flamboyant Talley is as charismatic as Anna is cold, whether he is sharing his insight with fashion designer Isabel Toledo or taking tennis lessons wearing a Louis Vuitton towel wrapped around his shoulders. However, despite including footage of the editor at large, The September Issue remains remarkably focused and tight in its runtime. This is an entertaining, engaging look at both the fashion and magazine industries that rarely takes its gaze off the woman at the top of both businesses. ~ Kimber Myers, Rovi

Cast and Crew: R.J. Cutler  Director 
R.J. Cutler  Executive Producer 
R.J. Cutler  Producer 
Craig Richey  Composer (Music Score) 
Molly Thompson  Executive Producer 
Robert Sharenow  Executive Producer 
Eliza Hindmarch  Producer 
Sadia Shepard  Producer 
Robert DeBitetto  Executive Producer 
Anna Wintour  Actor 
Grace Coddington  Actor 
André Leon Talley  Actor 
Thakoon Panichgul  Actor 
Hamish Bowles  Actor 
Sarah Brown  Actor 
Charlie Churchward  Actor 
Oscar de la Renta  Actor 
Patrick DeMarchelier  Actor 
Jill Demling  Actor 
Edward Enninful  Actor 
Brian Fee  Actor 
Filipa Fino  Actor 
Tom Florio  Actor 
Jean-Paul Gaultier  Actor 
Nicolas Ghesquiere  Actor 
Tonne Goodman  Actor 
Laurie Jones  Actor 
Karen Katz  Actor 
Alexandra Kotur  Actor 
Karl Lagerfeld  Actor 
Philip Lim  Actor 
Luiza Madejak  Actor 
Jim Mate  Actor 
Craig McDean  Actor 
Sienna Miller  Actor 
Sonya Mooney  Actor 
Jessica Nagin  Actor 
Si Newhouse IV  Actor 
Alberto Orta  Actor 
Sophie Pera  Actor 
Stefano Pilati  Actor 
Phyllis Posnick  Actor 
Candy Pratts Price  Actor 
Alex Rankovic  Actor 
Coco Rocha  Actor 
Jessica Sailer  Actor 
Elissa Santisi  Actor 
Bee Shaffer  Actor 
Ivan Shaw  Actor 
David Sims  Actor 
Sally Singer  Actor 
Virginia Smith  Actor 
Danko Steiner  Actor 
Burton Tansky  Actor 
Mario Testino  Actor 
Jane Thompson  Actor 
Isabel Toledo  Actor 
Charles Townsend  Actor 
Caroline Trentini  Actor 
Vera Wang  Actor 
Daria Werbowy  Actor 
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff  Actor 
Raquel Zimmerman  Actor 
Robert Richman  Actor 

Country: USA