Sophie Mayer

Magazines

I write about independent, Indigenous, experimental, feminist, queer, avant-garde and documentary cinema and film culture (and the occasional mainstream beauty) for these magazines: 

• Artesian (offline)
• The F-Word (online)
• Little White Lies (online and offline) 
• Sight & Sound (offline) -- read my review of El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (Aug '12)
• Vertigo (online)

If you love film (or know someone who does), please consider taking out a subscription (available online) to one or all of these excellent magazines!

Books

As a journalist, I am often asked to contribute to "best of" lists and anthologies. I don't have a fixed Top 10, but here's the list I contributed to the 2012 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll. You can read about some of my favourites in these handy and idiosyncratic reference books, which also make great gifts:

• The DVD Stack, ed. Nick Bradshaw & Tim Robey (Canongate, 2006)
• The DVD Stack II, ed. Nick Bradshaw & Tim Robey (Canongate, 2007)
• 501 Great Writers, ed. Julian Patrick (Barrons Educational, 2008)