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The 79th Festival has concluded, the awards have been handed out and we're so excited to let Nicholas Bell tell us what we should be excited about! Listen to us talk to him about the Official Competition, which he saw in its entirety, and then follow him on Instagram @ragingbells, find his podcast and Youtube channel FishJelly, read his reviews on Ion Cinema and check out his appearances on the Cinema Italia podcast.Follow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

The jury has been announced for the Official Competition of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, and we took a moment to react to the selections!Follow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 30th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival:3 Women by Robert AltmanThe American Friend (Der Amerikanische Freund) by Wim WendersAn Average Little Man (Un borghese piccolo piccolo) by Mario MonicelliBackbone (Kičma) by Vlatko GilićBang! by Jan TroellBlack Joy by Anthony SimmonsBound for Glory by Hal AshbyBudapest Tales (Budapesti mesék) by István SzabóCar Wash by Michael SchultzThe Duellists by Ridley ScottElisa, My Life (Elisa, vida mía) by Carlos SauraGroup Portrait with a Lady (Gruppenbild mit Dame) by Aleksandar PetrovićThe Hunters (Οι Κυνηγοί) by Theo AngelopoulosIphigenia (Ιφιγένεια) by Michael CacoyannisJ.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) by Jean BeaudinThe Lacemaker (La dentellière) by Claude GorettaThe Lorry (Le camion) by Marguerite DurasThe Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) by Jean Pierre LefebvrePadre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio TavianiThe Purple Taxi (Un taxi mauve) by Yves BoissetSolemn Communion (La Communion solennelle) by René FéretA Special Day (Una giornata particolare) by Ettore ScolaWounded Game (Подранки) by Nikolai GubenkoFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

The full slate of the upcoming 79th Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and Bil and Greg have things to say about it!Follow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 54th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival:Desert Moon (月の砂漠) by Shinji AoyamaDistance by Hirokazu Kore-edaI'm Going Home (Je rentre à la maison / Vou para Casa) by Manoel de OliveiraIn Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) by Jean-Luc GodardKandahar (قندهار) by Mohsen MakhmalbafThe Man Who Wasn't There by Joel CoenMillennium Mambo (千禧曼波) by Hou Hsiao-hsienMoulin Rouge! by Baz LuhrmannMulholland Drive by David LynchNo Man's Land (Ничија земља) by Danis TanovićThe Officers' Ward (La Chambre des officiers) by François DupeyronPau and His Brother (Pau i el seu germà) by Marc RechaThe Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) by Michael HanekeThe Pledge by Sean PennThe Profession of Arms (Il mestiere delle armi) by Ermanno OlmiReplay (La repetition) by Catherine CorsiniRoberto Succo by Cédric KahnShrek by Andrew Adamson and Vicky JensonTaurus (Телец) by Alexander SokurovThe Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) by Nanni MorettiVa savoir by Jacques RivetteWarm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水) by Shōhei ImamuraWhat Time Is It There? (你那邊幾點) by Tsai Ming-liangFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 36th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival:L'Argent by Robert BressonThe Ballad of Narayama by Shōhei ImamuraCarmen by Carlos SauraCross Creek by Martin RittThe Death of Mario Ricci by Claude GorettaDuvar by Yılmaz GüneyEréndira by Ruy GuerraForbidden Relations by Zsolt Kézdi-KovácsHeat and Dust by James IvoryThe King of Comedy (opening film) by Martin ScorseseKharij by Mrinal SenMerry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Nagisa ŌshimaMonty Python's The Meaning of Life by Terry JonesMoon in the Gutter by Jean-Jacques BeineixNostalghia by Andrei TarkovskyOne Deadly Summer by Jean BeckerStation for Two by Eldar RyazanovThe Story of Piera by Marco FerreriEl Sur by Víctor EriceTender Mercies by Bruce BeresfordThe Wounded Man by Patrice ChéreauThe Year of Living Dangerously by Peter WeirFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival:Armageddon Time by James GrayBoy from Heaven by Tarik SalehBroker by Hirokazu Kore-edaBrother and Sister (Frère et sœur) by Arnaud DesplechinClose by Lukas DhontCrimes of the Future by David CronenbergDecision to Leave by Park Chan-wookThe Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne) by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van GroeningenEO (Io) by Jerzy SkolimowskiForever Young (Les Amandiers) by Valeria Bruni TedeschiHoly Spider by Ali AbbasiLeila's Brothers by Saeed RoustayiMother and Son (Un petit frère) by Léonor SerrailleNostalgia by Mario MartonePacifiction (Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles) by Albert SerraR.M.N. by Cristian MungiuShowing Up by Kelly ReichardtStars at Noon by Claire DenisTchaikovsky's Wife by Kirill SerebrennikovTori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) by Jean-Pierre and Luc DardenneTriangle of Sadness by Ruben ÖstlundFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 2nd Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1947 Cannes Film Festival:Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean by Henri DecoinAntoine et Antoinette by Jacques BeckerBoomerang! by Elia KazanThe Captain's Daughter (La figlia del capitano) by Mario CameriniThe Cat (La gata) by Mario SofficiThe Chase by Arthur RipleyCrossfire by Edward DmytrykThe Damned (Les Maudits) by René ClémentDumbo by Ben SharpsteenFlesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo) by Alberto LattuadaIvy by Sam WoodThe Jolson Story by Alfred E. GreenLes jeux sont faits by Jean DelannoyLost in the Dark (Sperduti nel buio) by Camillo MastrocinqueMarouf, the Cairo Cobbler (Marouf Savetier du Caire) by Jean MauranMine Own Executioner by Anthony KimminsParis 1900 by Nicole VedresPossessed by Curtis BernhardtA Ship Bound for India (Skeep till India land) by Ingmar BergmanSong of Dolores (La copla de la Dolores) by Benito PerojoThe Strange Love of Martha Ivers by Lewis MilestoneA Tanítónő (The Teacher) by Márton KeletiTwo Women (Två kvinnor) by Arnold SjostrandZiegfeld Follies by Vincente MinnelliFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 20th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival:Accident by Joseph LoseyBlowup by Michelangelo AntonioniThe Climax by Pietro GermiDegree of Murder by Volker SchlöndorffElvira Madigan by Bo WiderbergEntranced Earth by Glauber RochaHagbard and Signe by Gabriel AxelHotel for Strangers by Antonín MášaI Even Met Happy Gypsies by Aleksandar PetrovićKaterina Izmailova by Mikhail ShapiroThe Killing Game by Alain JessuaThe Last Meeting by Antonio EceizaMy Love, My Love by Nadine TrintignantMisunderstood by Luigi ComenciniMonday's Child by Leopoldo Torre NilssonMouchette by Robert BressonPedro Páramo by Carlos VeloTen Thousand Days by Ferenc KósaThree Days and a Child by Uri ZoharUlysses by Joseph StrickThe Unknown Man of Shandigor by Jean-Louis RoyWe Still Kill the Old Way by Elio PetriThe Winds of the Aures by Mohammed Lakhdar-HaminaYou're a Big Boy Now by Francis Ford CoppolaFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival:The Captive by Atom EgoyanClouds of Sils Maria by Olivier AssayasFoxcatcher by Bennett MillerGoodbye to Language by Jean-Luc GodardThe Homesman by Tommy Lee JonesJimmy's Hall by Ken LoachLeviathan by Andrey ZvyagintsevMaps to the Stars by David CronenbergMommy by Xavier DolanMr. Turner by Mike LeighSaint Laurent by Bertrand BonelloThe Search by Michel HazanaviciusStill the Water by Naomi KawaseTimbuktu by Abderrahmane SissakoTwo Days, One Night by Jean-Pierre and Luc DardenneWild Tales by Damián SzifronWinter Sleep by Nuri Bilge CeylanThe Wonders by Alice RohrwacherFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 4th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival:All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, United StatesBright Victory, Mark RobsonThe Browning Version, Anthony Asquith, United KingdomCaiçara, Adolfo Celi, Tom Payne, and John Waterhouse, BrazilDance of Fire, La Danza del fuego, Daniel Tinayre, ArgentinaThe Deadly Dreams, Die tödlichen Träume, Paul Martin, West GermanyThe Devil Is a Woman, Doña Diabla, Tito Davison, MexicoDream of a Cossack, Кавалер Золотой Звезды, Yuli Raizman, Soviet UnionEdward and Caroline, Édouard et Caroline, Jacques Becker, FranceThe Falling Star, Der Fallende Stern, Harald Braun, West GermanyThe Forbidden Christ, Il Cristo proibito, Curzio Malaparte, ItalyFour in a Jeep, Die Vier im Jeep, Leopold Lindtberg, SwitzerlandThe Honesty of the Lock, La honradez de la cerradura, Luis Escobar, SpainLos Isleros, Lucas Demare, ArgentinaJuliette, or Key of Dreams, Juliette ou La clef des songes, Marcel Carné, FranceThe Last Mission, Τελευταία Αποστολή, Nikos Tsiforos, GreeceThe Marihuana Story, Marihuana, León Klimovsky, ArgentinaMiracle in Milan, Miracolo a Milano, Vittorio De Sica, ItalyMirror of Holland, Spiegel van Holland, Bert Haanstra, NetherlandsMiss Julie, Fröken Julie, Alf Sjöberg, SwedenMussorgsky, Мусоргский, Grigori Roshal, Soviet UnionThe New China, Освобождённый Китай, Sergei GerasimovLos Olvidados, Luis Buñuel, MexicoParis Vice Squad, Identité judiciaire, Hervé Bromberger, FrancePath of Hope, Il Cammino della speranza, Pietro Germi, ItalyA Place in the Sun, George Stevens, United StatesReckless, Balarrasa, José Antonio Nieves Conde, SpainRumbo, Ramón TorradoSide Street Story, Napoli milionaria, Eduardo De Filippo, ItalyThe Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Preston Sturges, United StatesA Strange Marriage, Különös házasság, Márton Keleti, HungaryThe Tales of Hoffmann, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, United KingdomThe Trap, Past, Martin Frič, CzechoslovakiaUnvanquished City, Robinson warszawski, Jerzy Zarzyck, PolandLa Virgen gitana, Ramón Torrado, SpainThe Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon, La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde, Carlos Hugo Christensen, Argentina, VenezuelaFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 51st Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival:April (Aprile) Nanni Moretti ItalyThe Celebration (Festen) Thomas Vinterberg DenmarkClaire Dolan Lodge Kerrigan United States, FranceClass Trip (La classe de neige) Claude Miller FranceDance Me to My Song Rolf de Heer AustraliaThe Dreamlife of Angels (La vie rêvée des anges) Erick Zonca FranceEternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα) Theo Angelopoulos GreeceFear and Loathing in Las Vegas Terry Gilliam United StatesFlowers of Shanghai (海上花) Hou Hsiao-hsien TaiwanFoolish Heart (Corazón iluminado) Héctor Babenco Argentina, Brazil, FranceThe General John Boorman Ireland, United KingdomThe Hole (洞) Tsai Ming-liang TaiwanHenry Fool Hal Hartley United StatesThe Idiots (Idioterne) Lars von Trier Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, SwedenIlluminata John Turturro United StatesKhrustalyov, My Car! (Хрусталёв, машину!) Aleksei German Russia, FranceLife Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Roberto Benigni ItalyMy Name Is Joe Ken Loach United KingdomThe Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas) Víctor Gaviria ColombiaThe School of Flesh (L'école de la chair) Benoît Jacquot FranceThose Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train) Patrice ChéreauVelvet Goldmine Todd Haynes United Kingdom, United StatesFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 26th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival:Ana and the Wolves by Carlos SauraBelle by André DelvauxThe Death of a Lumberjack by Gilles CarleThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul NewmanElectra Glide in Blue by James William GuercioFantastic Planet by Rene LalouxLe Far West by Jacques BrelGodspell (opening film) by David GreeneLa Grande Bouffe by Marco FerreriThe Hireling by Alan BridgesHospitals: The White Mafia by Luigi ZampaThe Hourglass Sanatorium by Wojciech HasThe Invitation by Claude GorettaJeremy by Arthur BarronLove and Anarchy by Lina WertmüllerThe Mother and the Whore by Jean EustacheMonologue by Ilya AverbakhO Lucky Man! by Lindsay AndersonOne Hamlet Less by Carmelo BeneLa otra imagen by Antoni RibasPetőfi '73 by Ferenc KardosScarecrow by Jerry SchatzbergThe Vows by António de MacedoWe Want the Colonels by Mario MonicelliFollow us on Instagram @rivieraratsWrite to us at [email protected] and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialRiviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

NEW BONUS EPISODE!  Bil and Greg close out the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the most exciting way: their first guest!  The great Nicholas Bell of Ioncinema.com just got back from the Riviera and is here to tell the Rats all about being at the festival and what he thought of the winners.  Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival:Antichrist by Lars von TrierBright Star by Jane CampionBroken Embraces by Pedro AlmodóvarButchered by Brillante MendozaEnter the Void by Gaspar NoéFace by Tsai Ming-liangFish Tank by Andrea ArnoldInglourious Basterds by Quentin TarantinoIn the Beginning by Xavier GiannoliLooking for Eric by Ken LoachMap of the Sounds of Tokyo by Isabel CoixetA Prophet by Jacques AudiardSpring Fever by Lou YeTaking Woodstock by Ang LeeThirst by Park Chan-wookThe Time That Remains by Elia SuleimanWild Grass by Alain ResnaisVincere by Marco BellocchioVengeance by Johnnie ToThe White Ribbon by Michael HanekeFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

The Juries for this month's festival have been announced and Bil and Greg have their reactions, plus talk about a few new inclusions to the competitions.Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 41st Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival:The Abyss by André DelvauxBird by Clint EastwoodThe Cannibals by Manoel de OliveiraChocolat by Claire DenisEl Dorado by Carlos SauraDrowning by Numbers by Peter GreenawayL'enfance de l'art by Francis GirodHanussen by István SzabóKing of the Children by Chen KaigeLove and Fear by Margarethe von TrottaEl Lute II: Tomorrow I'll be Free by Vicente ArandaMiles from Home by Gary SinisePascali's Island by James DeardenThe Passenger – Welcome to Germany by Thomas BraschPatty Hearst by Paul SchraderPelle the Conqueror by Bille AugustThe Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey by Vincent WardA Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof KieślowskiSouth by Fernando SolanasA World Apart by Chris MengesWuthering Heights by Yoshishige YoshidaFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

The official slate has been unveiled for the 78th Cannes Film Festival in May, and Bil and Greg want to tell you what they're most excited about. Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 76th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival:About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Anatomy of a Fall by Justine TrietAsphalt City by Jean-Stéphane SauvaireAsteroid City by Wes AndersonBanel & Adama by Ramata-Toulaye SyA Brighter Tomorrow by Nanni MorettiLa chimera by Alice RohrwacherClub Zero by Jessica HausnerFallen Leaves by Aki KaurismäkiFirebrand by Karim AïnouzFour Daughters by Kaouther Ben HaniaHomecoming by Catherine CorsiniKidnapped by Marco BellocchioLast Summer by Catherine BreillatMay December by Todd HaynesMonster by Hirokazu Kore-edaThe Old Oak by Ken LoachPerfect Days by Wim WendersThe Taste of Things by Tran Anh HungYouth (Spring) by Wang BingThe Zone of Interest by Jonathan GlazerFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 1st Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival:The Adventurous Bachelor by Otakar VávraAnna and the King of Siam by John CromwellThe Bandit by Alberto LattuadaThe Battle of the Rails by René ClémentBeauty and the Beast by Jean CocteauBlood and Fire by Anders HenriksonBrief Encounter by David LeanCaesar and Cleopatra by Gabriel PascalCamões by José Leitão de BarrosThe Captive Heart by Basil DeardenDunia by Mohammed KarimThe Queen's Flower by Paul CălinescuGaslight by George CukorGilda by Charles VidorUn giorno nella vita by Alessandro BlasettiGirl No. 217 by Mikhail RommThe Great Glinka by Lev ArnshtamHello Moscow! by Sergei YutkevichHis Young Wife by Mario SoldatiThe Last Chance by Leopold LindtbergLetter from the Dead by Johan JacobsenThe Lost Weekend by Billy WilderA Lover's Return by Christian-JaqueThe Lovers by Giacomo GentilomoThe Magic Bow by Bernard KnowlesMake Mine Music by Joshua Meador, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Robert Cormack and Hamilton LuskeMaría Candelaria by Emilio FernándezMen Without Wings by František ČápMr. Orchid by René ClémentNeecha Nagar by Chetan AnandNotorious by Alfred HitchcockPatrie by Louis DaquinThe Red Meadows by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.Rhapsody in Blue by Irving RapperRome, Open City by Roberto RosselliniThe Seventh Veil by Compton BennettThe Stone Flower by Aleksandr PtushkoPastoral Symphony by Jean DelannoyTorment by Alf SjöbergTrês Dias Sem Deus by Bárbara VirgíniaThe Three Musketeers by Miguel M. DelgadoThe Turning Point by Fridrikh ErmlerWonder Man by H. Bruce HumberstoneZoya by Lev ArnshtamFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.socialWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 16th Cannes Film Festival.Films screened In Competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival:Les Abysses by Nikos PapatakisAlvorada by Hugo NiebelingThe Cage (La Cage) by Robert DarèneCarom Shots (Carambolages) by Marcel BluwalThe Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch JasnýCodine by Henri ColpiThe Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina) by Marco FerreriA Cozy Cottage (Kertes házak utcája) by Tamás FejérEmpress Wu Tse-Tien (Wu Ze Tian) by Li Han HsiangThe Fiances (I Fidanzati) by Ermanno OlmiFor Those Who Will Follow (Pour la suite du monde) by Pierre Perrault and Michel BraultGlory Sky (Ouranos) by Takis KanellopoulosThe Good Love (El Buen amor) by Francisco RegueiroHarakiri (Seppuku) by Masaki KobayashiHow to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną) by Wojciech HasThe Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino ViscontiLike Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water) by Fons RademakersLord of the Flies by Peter BrookOptimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) by Samson SamsonovEl Otro Cristóbal by Armand GattiRat Trap (Le Rat d'Amérique) by Jean-Gabriel AlbicoccoThis Sporting Life by Lindsay AndersonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Robert MulliganTobacco (Тютюн) by Nikola KorabovThe Venerable Ones (Los Venerables todos) by Manuel AntínWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Robert AldrichFollow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Twitter at @rivieraratspodWrite to us at [email protected] Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.Theme music by Joseph OrganArtwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival: Amant Double by François Ozon The Beguiled by Sofia Coppola BPM (Beats per Minute) (QP) by Robin Campillo The Day After by Hong Sang-soo A Gentle Creature by Sergei Loznitsa Good Time by Josh and Benny Safdie Happy End by Michael Haneke In the Fade by Fatih Akin Jupiter's Moon by Kornél Mundruczó The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by Noah Baumbach Okja by Bong Joon-ho Radiance by Naomi Kawase Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius Rodin by Jacques Doillon The Square (closing film) by Ruben Östlund Wonderstruck by Todd Haynes You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 11th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival: Brink of Life (Nära livet) by Ingmar Bergman The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel Ciulinii Bărăganului by Louis Daquin The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers Goha by Jacques Baratier Iron Flower (Vasvirág) by János Herskó Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka Snow Country (Yukiguni) by Shirō Toyoda The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann Suburban Romance (Zizkovská romance) by Zbyněk Brynych Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Blue Sky at @rivierarats.bsky.social Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 49th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival: Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument by Arnaud Desplechin Crash by David Cronenberg Drifting Clouds by Aki Kaurismäki Earth by Julio Medem The Eighth Day by Jaco Van Dormael Fargo by Joel Coen Goodbye South, Goodbye by Hou Hsiao-hsien Kansas City by Robert Altman The Quiet Room by Rolf de Heer Ridicule (opening film) by Patrice Leconte The Second Time by Mimmo Calopresti Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh A Self-Made Hero by Jacques Audiard Stealing Beauty by Bernardo Bertolucci The Sunchaser by Michael Cimino Temptress Moon by Chen Kaige Thieves by André Téchiné Three Lives and Only One Death by Raúl Ruiz Too Late by Lucian Pintilie Tree of Blood by Flora Gomes The Van by Stephen Frears Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 28th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Martin Scorsese Aloïse by Liliane de Kermadec The Amulet of Ogum (O Amuleto de Ogum) by Nelson Pereira dos Santos Cher Victor (Ce cher Victor) by Robin Davis Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de Braise) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? (Ignacio) by François Reichenbach Electra, My Love (Szerelmem, Elektra) by Miklós Jancsó The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) by Werner Herzog A Happy Divorce (Un Divorce heureux) by Henning Carlsen Lenny by Bob Fosse Lotte in Weimar by Egon Günther Man Friday by Jack Gold Mariken van Nieumeghen by Jos Stelling Orders (Les Ordres) by Michel Brault The Passenger (Professione: reporter) by Michelangelo Antonioni Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Den-en ni shisu) by Shūji Terayama Scent of a Woman (Profumo di donna) by Dino Risi Section spéciale by Costa Gavras The Story of Sin (Dzieje grzechu) by Walerian Borowczyk They Fought for Their Country (Oni srazhalis za rodinu) by Sergei Bondarchuk A Touch of Zen (Xia nu) by King Hu Yuppi du by Adriano Celentano Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Twitter at @rivieraratspod Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 60th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu Aleksandra by Alexander Sokurov The Banishment by Andrey Zvyagintsev Breath by Kim Ki-duk Death Proof by Quentin Tarantino The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel The Edge of Heaven by Fatih Akın Import/Export by Ulrich Seidl The Last Mistress by Catherine Breillat Love Songs by Christophe Honoré The Man from London by Béla Tarr The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase My Blueberry Nights (opening film) by Wong Kar-wai No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen Paranoid Park by Gus Van Sant Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud Promise Me This by Emir Kusturica Secret Sunshine by Lee Chang-dong Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas Tehilim by Raphaël Nadjari We Own the Night by James Gray Zodiac by David Fincher Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 35th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival: À toute allure by Robert Kramer Another Way (Egymásra nézve) by Károly Makk Britannia Hospital by Lindsay Anderson Cecilia by Humberto Solás Day of the Idiots (Tag der Idioten) by Werner Schroeter Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog Hammett by Wim Wenders Identification of a Woman (Identificazione di una donna) by Michelangelo Antonioni A Ilha dos Amores by Paulo Rocha Invitation au voyage by Peter Del Monte Missing by Costa Gavras Moonlighting by Jerzy Skolimowski The Night of the Shooting Stars (La Notte di San Lorenzo) by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Passion by Jean-Luc Godard The Return of the Soldier by Alan Bridges Sandstorm (Vent de sable) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Shoot the Moon by Alan Parker Smithereens by Susan Seidelman Sweet Inquest on Violence (Douce enquête sur la violence) by Gérard Guérin That Night in Varennes (La Nuit de Varennes) by Ettore Scola The True Story of Ah Q (Ah Q zheng zhuan) by Fan Cen Yol by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 3rd Cannes Film Festival. Films in the 1949 Official Competition: Act of Violence by Fred Zinnemann The Adventures of Antar and Abla by Salah Abu Sayf Almafuerte by Luis Cesar Amadori An Act of Murder by Michael Gordon At the Grand Balcony by Henri Decoin Bitter Rice by Giuseppe De Santis Eroica by H. Walter Kolm-Veltee Foreign Harbour by Hampe Faustman Girls in Gingham by Kurt Maetzig Eine große Liebe by Hans Bertram House of Strangers by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Images d'Ethiopie by Paul Pichonnier Keep an Eye on Amelia by Claude Autant-Lara The Last Illusion by Josef Von Báky Lies of Love by Michelangelo Antonioni Lost Boundaries by Alfred L. Werker Na svoji zemlji by France Stiglic Obsession by Edward Dmytryk The Original Sin by Helmut Käutner The Passionate Friends by David Lean Pueblerina by Emilio Fernández The Queen of Spades by Thorold Dickinson Rendezvous in July by Jacques Becker Return to Life by Jean Dréville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Lampin, André Cayatte Sertao by Joao G. Martin The Set Up by Robert Wise The Third Man by Carol Reed The Walls of Malapaga by René Clément Without Honor by Irving Pichel Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Official Competition of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival: Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid) Annette (Leos Carax) Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven) Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch) Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) The Divide (Catherine Corsini) Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) Everything Went Fine (François Ozon) Flag Day (Sean Penn) France (Bruno Dumont) The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson) A Hero (Asghar Farhadi) Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat Saleh Haroun) Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Nitram (Justin Kurzel) Paris, 13th District (Jacques Audiard) Petrov's Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov) Red Rocket (Sean Baker) The Restless (Joachim Lafosse) The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi) Three Floors (Nanni Moretti) Titane (Julia Ducournau) The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier) Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 13th Cannes Film Festival. Official Competition of the 1960 Festival: America As Seen by a Frenchman (L'Amérique insolite) by François Reichenbach L'avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini Telegrame by Gheorghe Naghi and Aurel Miheles Bad Luck by Andrzej Munk Ballad of a Soldier by Grigori Chukhrai The Chasers by Erik Løchen Cidade Ameaçada by Roberto Farias The Delinquents by Carlos Saura The Enchanting Shadow by Li Han Hsiang First Lesson by Rangel Vulchanov The Hole by Jacques Becker Home from the Hill by Vincente Minnelli If the Wind Frightens You by Emile Degelin The Lady with the Dog by Iosif Kheifits Macario by Roberto Gavaldón Never on Sunday by Jules Dassin The Ninth Circle by France Štiglic Odd Obsession by Kon Ichikawa Paw by Astrid Henning-Jensen La Procesión by Francis Lauric The Savage Innocents by Nicholas Ray and Baccio Bandini Seven Days... Seven Nights by Peter Brook Sons and Lovers by Jack Cardiff Sujata by Bimal Roy The Unsent Letter by Mikhail Kalatozov The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman When the Woman Butts In by Zdeněk Podskalský The Young One by Luis Buñuel Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Official Competition of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival: Another Year (Mike Leigh) Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Burnt by the Sun 2 (Nikita Mikhalkov) Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami) Chongqing Blues (Wang Xiaoshuai) Fair Game (Doug Liman) The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo) My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa) Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois) On Tour (Mathieu Amalric) Our Life (Daniele Luchetti) Outrage (Takeshi Kitano) Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb) Poetry (Lee Chang-dong) The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier) Route Irish (Ken Loach) A Screaming Man (Mahamat Saleh Haroun) Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (Kornél Mundruczó) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 10th Cannes Film Festival. Official Competition of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival: The Bachelor Party by Delbert Mann Duped Till Doomsday by Kurt Jung-Alsen He Who Must Die by Jules Dassin The House of the Angel by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Don Quixote by Grigori Kozintsev Earth by Zahari Zhandov Faustina by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia The Forty-First by Grigori Chukhrai Friendly Persuasion by William Wyler Funny Face by Stanley Donen Gotoma the Buddha by Rajbans Khanna Guendalina by Alberto Lattuada The Harvest Month by Matti Kassila High Tide at Noon by Philip Leacock Kanał by Andrzej Wajda Lapland Calendar by Per Høst Lost Children by Miloš Makovec A Man Escaped by Robert Bresson The Mill of Good Luck by Victor Iliu Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini The Rice People by Tadashi Imai Qivitoq by Erik Balling Rekava by Lester James Peries Rose Bernd by Wolfgang Staudte The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman Shiroi sanmyaku by Sadao Imamura Sissi - The Young Empress by Ernst Marischka Two Confessions by Márton Keleti Valley of Peace by France Štiglic Whither? by Georges Nasser Yangtse Incident by Michael Anderson Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 46th Cannes Festival. Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats Write to us at [email protected] Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh. Theme music by Joseph Organ Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

Welcome to Riviera Rats! On this podcast, Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh will be going through each edition of the Cannes Film Festival, year by year, and evaluating the choices of the Palme D'Or. For our introduction, get to know who we are, what to expect from our show and, just for fun, a few factoids about the town of Cannes and the festival itself.