By Jacob Mertens, Review Editor for Film International. 
Here we are at the cusp of a new year, and the long-awaited Film International call for reviews is finally here! It is my pleasure to announce that we are actively seeking reviews for the titles listed blow. If you are interested in receiving items for review, please email me your mailing address and a list of titles in order of preference at: filminternationalreviews@gmail.com. As always, titles will be given on a first come, first served basis and reviewers will largely be held to one item for the current call. If a title has “TAKEN” by it, it has already been claimed.
Please note that the majority of press screeners for films will require a region 2 or region free DVD player. Also note that Criterion press copies will be allocated in-house from this point on, but that unsolicited reviews for Criterion titles will still be welcome in the new year.
The deadline for reviews is June 1st, 2014.
Press copies for films:
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk; Eureka!) – TAKEN
Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto; Third Window Films) – TAKEN
The Epic of Everest (Captain John Noel; BFI) – TAKEN
Eyes of the Spider/Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Third Window Films) – TAKEN
Fairy Tale Killer (Danny Pang and Oxide Pang; Terracotta) – TAKEN
Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson; BFI) – TAKEN
Il Bidone (Federico Fellini; Eureka!) – TAKEN
John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; Eureka!) – TAKEN
The Land of Hope (Sion Sono; Third Window Films) – TAKEN
Late Mizoguchi: Eight Films, 1951-1956 (Kenji Mizoguchi; Eureka!) – TAKEN
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian; BFI) – TAKEN
Red River (Howard Hawks; Eureka!) – TAKEN
Robin Redbreast (James MacTaggart; BFI)
Shackled (Upi Avianto; Terracotta)
Simon Killer (Antonio Campos; Eureka!) – TAKEN
Sleepwalker (Saxon Logan; BFI)
The Stuart Hall Project (John Akomfrah; BFI) – TAKEN
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk; Eureka!) – TAKEN
Tokyo Fist (Shinya Tsukamoto; Third Window Films) – TAKEN
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat; Eureka!) – TAKEN
Wings (William A. Wellman; Eureka!) – TAKEN
Press copies for books:
British Gothic Cinema (Barry Forshaw; Palgrave Macmillan) – TAKEN
Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals (Jeffrey Ruoff; St Andrews Film Studies) – TAKEN
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School (Marco Abel; Boydell & Brewer Ltd)
Directory of World Cinema: Latin America (Isabel Maurer Queipo; Intellect Books) – TAKEN
Directory of World Cinema: Turkey (Eylem Atakav; Intellect Books) – TAKEN
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2 (John Berra; Intellect Books)
Exporting Perilous Pauline (Marina Dahlquist; University of Illinois Press) – TAKEN
Fan Phenomena: Star Wars (Mike Elovaara; Intellect Books) – TAKEN
The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand (Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devades; University of Minnesota Press)
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema (Nigel Eltringham; Berghahn Books) – TAKEN
Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (Patrick McGilligan; University of Minnesota Press)
German Cinema – Terror and Trauma (Thomas Elsaesser; Routledge) – TAKEN
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity (Maria Fritsche; Berghahn Books)
Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan (Hideaki Fujiki; Harvard University Press) – TAKEN
Nazi Film Melodrama (Laura Heins; University of Illinois Press) – TAKEN
Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia (Mattias Frey; Berghahn Books) – TAKEN
Spanish Cinema in the Global Context (Samuel Amago; Routledge) – TAKEN
Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age (William Brown; Berghahn Books) – TAKEN