6.7

The September Issue

2009, USA

• Actors: Oscar De la Renta, Patrick DeMarchelier, John Galliano, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Candy Pratts, Hilary Rhoda, Coco Rocha, André Leon Talley, Mario Testino, Caroline Trentini, Vera Wang, Daria Werbowy, Anna Wintour, Robert Verdi
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): R.J. Cutler
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, this film tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion.

  6.9

Valentino: The Last Emperor

2008, USA

• Actors: Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal, Giorgio Armani, Jeannie Becker, Matthew Broderick, Michael Caine, Joan Collins, Alessandra Facchinetti, Dante Ferretti, Tom Ford, Anne Hathaway, Jacqueline Kennedy, Karl Lagerfeld, Matteo Marzotto, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claudia Schiffer, Meryl Streep, André Leon Talley, Uma Thurman, Donatella Versace, Diane von Fürstenberg, Alek Wek, Anna Wintour
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Matt Tyrnauer
• Available languages:
  • Italian Italian.

A story of friendship, a retrospective, and a look at haute couture as business: we watch Valentino Garavani (1932- ) and partner Giancarlo Giammetti from preparation for the 2006 Spring/Summer Collection in Paris to a July 2007 retrospective of Valentino's 45-year career, which included dressing Jacqueline Kennedy. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes, and decisions. We follow a creation from sketch to runway: he's always in pursuit of beauty. We're in Paris, Rome, and Venice. He receives the French Legion of Honor medal; his acceptance speech brings tears. Reporters ask when he'll retire. Is the Roman retrospective his career's finale? Cue Puccini.

  5.3

Sex and the City

2007, USA

• Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Candice Bergen, Jennifer Hudson, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, Lynn Cohen, Willie Garson, Joanna Gleason, Joseph Pupo, Alexandra Fong, Parker Fong, Kerry Bishé, Polina Frantsena, Kate Rockwell, Amy Flanagan, Celina Carvajal, Amanda Setton, Ching Valdes-Aran, Malcolm Gets, Lorna Kelly, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Patrick DeMarchelier, André Leon Talley, Plum Sykes
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Michael Patrick King
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After moving in together in an impossibly beautiful New York apartment, Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big make a rather arbitrary decision to get married. The wedding itself proves to be anything but a hasty affair--the guest list quickly blooms from 75 to 200 guests, and Carrie's simple, label-less wedding gown gives way to an enormous creation that makes her look like a gigantic cream puff. An upcoming photo spread in Vogue puts the event--which will take place at the New York Public Library--squarely in the public eye. Meanwhile, Carrie's girlfriends--Samantha, the sexpot; Charlotte, the sweet naïf; and Miranda, the rigid perfectionist--could not be happier. At least, they couldn't be happier for Carrie. Charlotte still has the unrealized hope of getting pregnant. Samantha is finding a loving, committed relationship more grueling than she could have imagined. Miranda unwittingly lets her own unhappiness--created when Steve admits to cheating on her just once--spoil Carrie's. After a heated encounter with Steve, she happens to spot Mr. Big and tells him he's crazy to get married. She's really only thinking of her own marriage. But her angry remark gets Mr. Big to thinking.