The September Issue (2009)

The real-life companion to every Devil Wears Prada joke. The cameras follow Anna Wintour and her Vogue staff as they put together the September 2007 issue, but the person you remember is creative director Grace Coddington, quietly furious when one of her photo spreads is cut from the magazine. That push and pull between the editor who sells the issue and the stylist who makes the pictures is the whole film, and it explains more about how a fashion magazine works than any drama. Watch it as a workplace film about taste and compromise.