New on DVD: Anna Wintour, Quentin Crisp, Nurse Jackie and more!

Legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour

Two new documentaries focus on very different fashionistas, a sequel to a queer classic, and one of last year's most acclaimed series (as well as one of the year's most underappreciated movies) make their DVD debuts this week.

Clearly meant to be an antidote to the public relationshit Anna Wintour took on The Devil Wears Prada, The September Issue allowed filmmakers unprecedented access to the creation of Vogue's biggest book of the year. While the film never feels particularly revelatory, it's fun to spend time with such domineering personalities as Wintour and the larger-than-life Andre Leon Talley. Ultimately, the whole show is stolen by the delightful Grace Coddington, a former model who's now the yin to Wintour's yang, giving the magazine what soul it has.

Elsewhere on the fashion scene, Eleven Minutes follows Project Runway's first winner, Jay McCarroll, as he sweats and frets over his very first collection. If you liked Jay on TV, you'll enjoy this peek into his off-reality-TV world; if he bugged you then, however, he'll probably still get on your nerves.

Another New Yorker with flair was the late Quentin Crisp, and John Hurt once again brings Crisp to vivid life in An Englishman in New York, the sequel to The Naked Civil Servant. This tale begins the morning after Naked premiered on British television and follows Crisp to his new home in Manhattan, where he felt completely at home. The film follows the triumphs and controversies of the latter portion of Crisp's life, and while the storytelling sometimes flags, Hurt's spot-on performance never does.

One of the best new shows of 2008 was Showtime's Nurse Jackie, spotlighting the extraordinary Edie Falco in a role that's as un–Carmela Soprano as possible. Jackie does her best to juggle husband and family with the demands of her job and the affair she's having with the hospital pharmacist who keeps her hooked up with prescription drugs. (He doesn't discover until late in the season that Jackie's married.)

Nurse Jackie's terrific supporting cast included two hilarious gay nurses — I'm mad about Thor (Stephen Wallem) but irked that MoMo (Haaz Sleiman) isn't coming back for season two.

Finally — and I know I'm in the minority here, but it's my column — one of the most undersung films of 2009, Richard Kelly's The Box, makes its DVD debut this week.

This offbeat adaptation of a Richard Matheson–scripted Twilight Zone episode wasn't for all tastes, to be sure, but for me it was one of the few 2009 releases that was thoroughly and completely unpredictable. I thought Donnie Darko was interesting but not the greatest thing since sliced bread — and don't get me started on Southland Tales — but The Box was the film that won me over to Kelly's uniquely skewed view of the world. Lots of folks hated it, but I say it's worth a look.