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Riviera Rats
Bil Antoniou, Gregory Rosebrugh
26 episodes
3 weeks ago
Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh go through every edition of the Cannes Film Festival to decide if the Palme D'Or was the right choice.
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Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh go through every edition of the Cannes Film Festival to decide if the Palme D'Or was the right choice.
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Riviera Rats
26: 1967 - Blowup

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 Losey

Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni

The Climax by Pietro Germi

Degree of Murder by Volker Schlöndorff

Elvira Madigan by Bo Widerberg

Entranced Earth by Glauber Rocha

Hagbard and Signe by Gabriel Axel

Hotel for Strangers by Antonín Máša

I Even Met Happy Gypsies by Aleksandar Petrović

Katerina Izmailova by Mikhail Shapiro

The Killing Game by Alain Jessua

The Last Meeting by Antonio Eceiza

My Love, My Love by Nadine Trintignant

Misunderstood by Luigi Comencini

Monday's Child by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Mouchette by Robert Bresson

Pedro Páramo by Carlos Velo

Ten Thousand Days by Ferenc Kósa

Three Days and a Child by Uri Zohar

Ulysses by Joseph Strick

The Unknown Man of Shandigor by Jean-Louis Roy

We Still Kill the Old Way by Elio Petri

The Winds of the Aures by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

You're a Big Boy Now by Francis Ford Coppola


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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1 month ago
2 hours 14 minutes 16 seconds

Riviera Rats
25: 2014 - Winter Sleep

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 Egoyan

Clouds of Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas

Foxcatcher by Bennett Miller

Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard

The Homesman by Tommy Lee Jones

Jimmy's Hall by Ken Loach

Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg

Mommy by Xavier Dolan

Mr. Turner by Mike Leigh

Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello

The Search by Michel Hazanavicius

Still the Water by Naomi Kawase

Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako

Two Days, One Night by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Wild Tales by Damián Szifron

Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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2 months ago
2 hours 26 minutes 44 seconds

Riviera Rats
24: 1951 - Miracle In Milan/Miss Julie

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 States

Bright Victory, Mark Robson

The Browning Version, Anthony Asquith, United Kingdom

Caiçara, Adolfo Celi, Tom Payne, and John Waterhouse, Brazil

Dance of Fire, La Danza del fuego, Daniel Tinayre, Argentina

The Deadly Dreams, Die tödlichen Träume, Paul Martin, West Germany

The Devil Is a Woman, Doña Diabla, Tito Davison, Mexico

Dream of a Cossack, Кавалер Золотой Звезды, Yuli Raizman, Soviet Union

Edward and Caroline, Édouard et Caroline, Jacques Becker, France

The Falling Star, Der Fallende Stern, Harald Braun, West Germany

The Forbidden Christ, Il Cristo proibito, Curzio Malaparte, Italy

Four in a Jeep, Die Vier im Jeep, Leopold Lindtberg, Switzerland

The Honesty of the Lock, La honradez de la cerradura, Luis Escobar, Spain

Los Isleros, Lucas Demare, Argentina

Juliette, or Key of Dreams, Juliette ou La clef des songes, Marcel Carné, France

The Last Mission, Τελευταία Αποστολή, Nikos Tsiforos, Greece

The Marihuana Story, Marihuana, León Klimovsky, Argentina

Miracle in Milan, Miracolo a Milano, Vittorio De Sica, Italy

Mirror of Holland, Spiegel van Holland, Bert Haanstra, Netherlands

Miss Julie, Fröken Julie, Alf Sjöberg, Sweden

Mussorgsky, Мусоргский, Grigori Roshal, Soviet Union

The New China, Освобождённый Китай, Sergei Gerasimov

Los Olvidados, Luis Buñuel, Mexico

Paris Vice Squad, Identité judiciaire, Hervé Bromberger, France

Path of Hope, Il Cammino della speranza, Pietro Germi, Italy

A Place in the Sun, George Stevens, United States

Reckless, Balarrasa, José Antonio Nieves Conde, Spain

Rumbo, Ramón Torrado

Side Street Story, Napoli milionaria, Eduardo De Filippo, Italy

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Preston Sturges, United States

A Strange Marriage, Különös házasság, Márton Keleti, Hungary

The Tales of Hoffmann, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, United Kingdom

The Trap, Past, Martin Frič, Czechoslovakia

Unvanquished City, Robinson warszawski, Jerzy Zarzyck, Poland

La Virgen gitana, Ramón Torrado, Spain

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon, La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde, Carlos Hugo Christensen, Argentina, Venezuela

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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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3 months ago
2 hours 6 minutes 17 seconds

Riviera Rats
23: 1998 - Eternity And A Day

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 Italy

The Celebration (Festen) Thomas Vinterberg Denmark

Claire Dolan Lodge Kerrigan United States, France

Class Trip (La classe de neige) Claude Miller France

Dance Me to My Song Rolf de Heer Australia

The Dreamlife of Angels (La vie rêvée des anges) Erick Zonca France

Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα) Theo Angelopoulos Greece

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Terry Gilliam United States

Flowers of Shanghai (海上花) Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan

Foolish Heart (Corazón iluminado) Héctor Babenco Argentina, Brazil, France

The General John Boorman Ireland, United Kingdom

The Hole (洞) Tsai Ming-liang Taiwan

Henry Fool Hal Hartley United States

The Idiots (Idioterne) Lars von Trier Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden

Illuminata John Turturro United States

Khrustalyov, My Car! (Хрусталёв, машину!) Aleksei German Russia, France

Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Roberto Benigni Italy

My Name Is Joe Ken Loach United Kingdom

The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas) Víctor Gaviria Colombia

The School of Flesh (L'école de la chair) Benoît Jacquot France

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train) Patrice Chéreau

Velvet Goldmine Todd Haynes United Kingdom, United States


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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4 months ago
2 hours 20 minutes 5 seconds

Riviera Rats
22: 1973 - The Hireling/Scarecrow

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 Saura

Belle by André Delvaux

The Death of a Lumberjack by Gilles Carle

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Newman

Electra Glide in Blue by James William Guercio

Fantastic Planet by Rene Laloux

Le Far West by Jacques Brel

Godspell (opening film) by David Greene

La Grande Bouffe by Marco Ferreri

The Hireling by Alan Bridges

Hospitals: The White Mafia by Luigi Zampa

The Hourglass Sanatorium by Wojciech Has

The Invitation by Claude Goretta

Jeremy by Arthur Barron

Love and Anarchy by Lina Wertmüller

The Mother and the Whore by Jean Eustache

Monologue by Ilya Averbakh

O Lucky Man! by Lindsay Anderson

One Hamlet Less by Carmelo Bene

La otra imagen by Antoni Ribas

Petőfi '73 by Ferenc Kardos

Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg

The Vows by António de Macedo

We Want the Colonels by Mario Monicelli



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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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6 months ago
2 hours 16 minutes 29 seconds

Riviera Rats
21: BONUS - The 2025 Awards

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.  

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Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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7 months ago
59 minutes 15 seconds

Riviera Rats
20: 2009 - The White Ribbon

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 Trier

Bright Star by Jane Campion

Broken Embraces by Pedro Almodóvar

Butchered by Brillante Mendoza

Enter the Void by Gaspar Noé

Face by Tsai Ming-liang

Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold

Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino

In the Beginning by Xavier Giannoli

Looking for Eric by Ken Loach

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo by Isabel Coixet

A Prophet by Jacques Audiard

Spring Fever by Lou Ye

Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee

Thirst by Park Chan-wook

The Time That Remains by Elia Suleiman

Wild Grass by Alain Resnais

Vincere by Marco Bellocchio

Vengeance by Johnnie To

The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.


Theme music by Joseph Organ


Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris


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7 months ago
2 hours 15 minutes 53 seconds

Riviera Rats
19: BONUS - The 2025 Juries

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.

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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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8 months ago
27 minutes 49 seconds

Riviera Rats
18: 1988 - Pelle The Conqueror

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 Delvaux

Bird by Clint Eastwood

The Cannibals by Manoel de Oliveira

Chocolat by Claire Denis

El Dorado by Carlos Saura

Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway

L'enfance de l'art by Francis Girod

Hanussen by István Szabó

King of the Children by Chen Kaige

Love and Fear by Margarethe von Trotta

El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll be Free by Vicente Aranda

Miles from Home by Gary Sinise

Pascali's Island by James Dearden

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany by Thomas Brasch

Patty Hearst by Paul Schrader

Pelle the Conqueror by Bille August

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey by Vincent Ward

A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski

South by Fernando Solanas

A World Apart by Chris Menges

Wuthering Heights by Yoshishige Yoshida


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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9 months ago
2 hours 12 minutes 1 second

Riviera Rats
17: BONUS EPISODE! 2025 Competition Announcement Reactions

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.

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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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9 months ago
51 minutes 43 seconds

Riviera Rats
16: 2023 - Anatomy Of A Fall

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 Triet

Asphalt City by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Asteroid City by Wes Anderson

Banel & Adama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy

A Brighter Tomorrow by Nanni Moretti

La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher

Club Zero by Jessica Hausner

Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki

Firebrand by Karim Aïnouz

Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania

Homecoming by Catherine Corsini

Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio

Last Summer by Catherine Breillat

May December by Todd Haynes

Monster by Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Old Oak by Ken Loach

Perfect Days by Wim Wenders

The Taste of Things by Tran Anh Hung

Youth (Spring) by Wang Bing

The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris


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9 months ago
2 hours 18 minutes 52 seconds

Riviera Rats
15: 1946 - The First Cannes

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 Vávra

Anna and the King of Siam by John Cromwell

The Bandit by Alberto Lattuada

The Battle of the Rails by René Clément

Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau

Blood and Fire by Anders Henrikson

Brief Encounter by David Lean

Caesar and Cleopatra by Gabriel Pascal

Camões by José Leitão de Barros

The Captive Heart by Basil Dearden

Dunia by Mohammed Karim

The Queen's Flower by Paul Călinescu

Gaslight by George Cukor

Gilda by Charles Vidor

Un giorno nella vita by Alessandro Blasetti

Girl No. 217 by Mikhail Romm

The Great Glinka by Lev Arnshtam

Hello Moscow! by Sergei Yutkevich

His Young Wife by Mario Soldati

The Last Chance by Leopold Lindtberg

Letter from the Dead by Johan Jacobsen

The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder

A Lover's Return by Christian-Jaque

The Lovers by Giacomo Gentilomo

The Magic Bow by Bernard Knowles

Make Mine Music by Joshua Meador, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Robert Cormack and Hamilton Luske

María Candelaria by Emilio Fernández

Men Without Wings by František Čáp

Mr. Orchid by René Clément

Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand

Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock

Patrie by Louis Daquin

The Red Meadows by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.

Rhapsody in Blue by Irving Rapper

Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini

The Seventh Veil by Compton Bennett

The Stone Flower by Aleksandr Ptushko

Pastoral Symphony by Jean Delannoy

Torment by Alf Sjöberg

Três Dias Sem Deus by Bárbara Virgínia

The Three Musketeers by Miguel M. Delgado

The Turning Point by Fridrikh Ermler

Wonder Man by H. Bruce Humberstone

Zoya by Lev Arnshtam

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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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10 months ago
1 hour 58 minutes 29 seconds

Riviera Rats
14: 1963 - The Leopard


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 Papatakis

Alvorada by Hugo Niebeling

The Cage (La Cage) by Robert Darène

Carom Shots (Carambolages) by Marcel Bluwal

The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný

Codine by Henri Colpi

The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina) by Marco Ferreri

A Cozy Cottage (Kertes házak utcája) by Tamás Fejér

Empress Wu Tse-Tien (Wu Ze Tian) by Li Han Hsiang

The Fiances (I Fidanzati) by Ermanno Olmi

For Those Who Will Follow (Pour la suite du monde) by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault

Glory Sky (Ouranos) by Takis Kanellopoulos

The Good Love (El Buen amor) by Francisco Regueiro

Harakiri (Seppuku) by Masaki Kobayashi

How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną) by Wojciech Has

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino Visconti

Like Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water) by Fons Rademakers

Lord of the Flies by Peter Brook

Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) by Samson Samsonov

El Otro Cristóbal by Armand Gatti

Rat Trap (Le Rat d'Amérique) by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco

This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson

To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan

Tobacco (Тютюн) by Nikola Korabov

The Venerable Ones (Los Venerables todos) by Manuel Antín

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Robert Aldrich


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris



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11 months ago
1 hour 34 minutes 41 seconds

Riviera Rats
13: 2017 - The Square

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



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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris


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11 months ago
1 hour 43 minutes 12 seconds

Riviera Rats
12: 1958 - The Cranes Are Flying

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


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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12 months ago
1 hour 21 minutes 38 seconds

Riviera Rats
11: 1996 - Secrets & Lies

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


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris


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1 year ago
1 hour 57 minutes 47 seconds

Riviera Rats
10: 1975 - Chronicle Of The Years of Fire

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


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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris




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1 year ago
1 hour 45 minutes 57 seconds

Riviera Rats
9: 2007 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

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



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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris


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1 hour 43 minutes 5 seconds

Riviera Rats
8: 1982 - Missing / Yol

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



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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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1 hour 20 minutes 10 seconds

Riviera Rats
7: 1949 - The Third Man

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



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Riviera Rats is hosted and produced by Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh.

Theme music by Joseph Organ

Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris


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1 hour 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Bil Antoniou and Gregory Rosebrugh go through every edition of the Cannes Film Festival to decide if the Palme D'Or was the right choice.