I saw this film at the local theater when it was released. I thought it was interesting until I saw Anna’s interview with David Letterman. Well, Anna Wintour has as much personality as a mosquito…small and annoying (not to mention she looks like one with her Bob hair duo and sunglasses). She really showed how irrelevant she could be.
Rating: 3 / 5
The trailer for this movie looks awesome! We’ll be seeing the real Devil in Prada this time…. The fashions are real, the players are real, and the reputation of one single woman is also very real! Can’t wait to see the full movie in the theatre and the DVD…..
Rating: 5 / 5
Absolutely loved this documentary. It was fasinating to see how such a massive Vogue issue is put together. It also opened us up to the mysterious Anna Wintour without really removing any of her mystery as a very powerful fashion icon, or as a person. I don’t know if this was due to the director, or Anna Wintour herself, but the documentary was effective in giving us just enough of Wintour so that we wanted to know more. Now, Grace Coddington. I could have done with MUCH less of her in the documentary. She came across as whining, tiring, angry, and bitter. I understand she doesn’t get her way artistically with Wintour as much as she’d like, but geez . . . quit bitching about it, suck it up, and at least attempt to act like a professional . . . or move on. Coddington must really be excellent at her job; which, no doubt, is the only reason her bad attitude is tolerated at Vogue. I’d much rather work directly for a cold Anna Wintour than the angry, self-victimized Grace Coddington. It was strange to me that the other reviewers could only sing Coddington’s praise . . . I found everything about her thoroughout the documentary — short of her photos — annoying as heck! Does this mean that artistic people are acceptable as emotional messes?
Rating: 5 / 5
… and perhaps a rather disappointing one, in that our “glimpse” is a rather “surface”, shallow one. Although… it must be said that this is probably a must-see film for anyone even moderately interesed in fashion and/or publishing, given that Ms.Wintour has held the helm of this greatest fashion bible for twenty years; I, however, expected much more.
And, I am very surprised that none of the other Amamzon-folk mention that the fashionistas appearing in this movie wore some of the most questionable outfits imaginable… did they forget that the cameras were rolling? Even Ms.Wintour, herself, “graced” the screen with some ensembles created of really at-odds combinations of seemingly mismatched separates; did she look in the mirror before leaving her house?
I expected someone more dynamic, a person larger than life… instead, we get a rather inward-looking and “still” beige woman, walking… at least figuratively, with shoulders-forward rather than shoulders-back, and with a hairsytle needing to be re-thought to show her face; where was the fabulous-ness???, though one certainly must acknowledge those past twenty years at the VOGUE-helm… and her focused, assured intensity as she made SeptemberIssue-related decisions, in this, an industry taking no prisoners… she has survived and prevailed.
Well, at least Andre Leon Talley is always lots of fun!
I saw three fashion documentaries, Wintor, Valentino, Lagerfeld. To be Honest, the Valentino is the best one, no wonder it made the short list for the oscars…The September Issue was rush and rush throughout the movie. Lagerfeld the person is great, but the documentary just was too slow waiting for Lagerfeld’s every move.
Rating: 3 / 5
I saw this film at the local theater when it was released. I thought it was interesting until I saw Anna’s interview with David Letterman. Well, Anna Wintour has as much personality as a mosquito…small and annoying (not to mention she looks like one with her Bob hair duo and sunglasses). She really showed how irrelevant she could be.
Rating: 3 / 5
The trailer for this movie looks awesome! We’ll be seeing the real Devil in Prada this time…. The fashions are real, the players are real, and the reputation of one single woman is also very real! Can’t wait to see the full movie in the theatre and the DVD…..
Rating: 5 / 5
Absolutely loved this documentary. It was fasinating to see how such a massive Vogue issue is put together. It also opened us up to the mysterious Anna Wintour without really removing any of her mystery as a very powerful fashion icon, or as a person. I don’t know if this was due to the director, or Anna Wintour herself, but the documentary was effective in giving us just enough of Wintour so that we wanted to know more. Now, Grace Coddington. I could have done with MUCH less of her in the documentary. She came across as whining, tiring, angry, and bitter. I understand she doesn’t get her way artistically with Wintour as much as she’d like, but geez . . . quit bitching about it, suck it up, and at least attempt to act like a professional . . . or move on. Coddington must really be excellent at her job; which, no doubt, is the only reason her bad attitude is tolerated at Vogue. I’d much rather work directly for a cold Anna Wintour than the angry, self-victimized Grace Coddington. It was strange to me that the other reviewers could only sing Coddington’s praise . . . I found everything about her thoroughout the documentary — short of her photos — annoying as heck! Does this mean that artistic people are acceptable as emotional messes?
Rating: 5 / 5
… and perhaps a rather disappointing one, in that our “glimpse” is a rather “surface”, shallow one. Although… it must be said that this is probably a must-see film for anyone even moderately interesed in fashion and/or publishing, given that Ms.Wintour has held the helm of this greatest fashion bible for twenty years; I, however, expected much more.
And, I am very surprised that none of the other Amamzon-folk mention that the fashionistas appearing in this movie wore some of the most questionable outfits imaginable… did they forget that the cameras were rolling? Even Ms.Wintour, herself, “graced” the screen with some ensembles created of really at-odds combinations of seemingly mismatched separates; did she look in the mirror before leaving her house?
I expected someone more dynamic, a person larger than life… instead, we get a rather inward-looking and “still” beige woman, walking… at least figuratively, with shoulders-forward rather than shoulders-back, and with a hairsytle needing to be re-thought to show her face; where was the fabulous-ness???, though one certainly must acknowledge those past twenty years at the VOGUE-helm… and her focused, assured intensity as she made SeptemberIssue-related decisions, in this, an industry taking no prisoners… she has survived and prevailed.
Well, at least Andre Leon Talley is always lots of fun!
Paging Ms.Diana Vreeland’s FABULOUS RED!!!
Rating: 3 / 5
I saw three fashion documentaries, Wintor, Valentino, Lagerfeld. To be Honest, the Valentino is the best one, no wonder it made the short list for the oscars…The September Issue was rush and rush throughout the movie. Lagerfeld the person is great, but the documentary just was too slow waiting for Lagerfeld’s every move.
Rating: 3 / 5