Sundance 2009: "The September Issue."
There's a moment in "The September Issue" in which it seems, perhaps, that Miss Anna Wintour regrets. She's just explained that her siblings work in global labor organization, in arranging low-income housing and as the political editor of the Guardian. "My brothers and sister are very amused by what I do," she says, biting her lip, and for a second you believe that "Nuclear" Wintour, the famously glacial, controlling and all-powerful editor-in-chief of American Vogue, secretly wishes she'd gotten a medical degree and went off to Sudan with Doctors Without Borders. And then you don't, because throughout R.J. Cutler's documentary, which spans the assembling of the 2007 September issue of Vogue, the largest and most important of the year, Wintour keeps such a tight rein on how she's portrayed that even moments of vulnerability seem calculated. It's not much of a complaint -- I would have loved a bit more...
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