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Riviera Rats

Bil Antoniou, Gregory Rosebrugh

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Frequency: 1 episode/20d. Total Eps: 29

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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29: 1983 - The Ballad of Narayama

Season 3 · Episode 29

Sunday, March 1, 2026 • Duration 02:16:28

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 Bresson

The Ballad of Narayama by Shōhei Imamura

Carmen by Carlos Saura

Cross Creek by Martin Ritt

The Death of Mario Ricci by Claude Goretta

Duvar by Yılmaz Güney

Eréndira by Ruy Guerra

Forbidden Relations by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács

Heat and Dust by James Ivory

The King of Comedy (opening film) by Martin Scorsese

Kharij by Mrinal Sen

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Nagisa Ōshima

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by Terry Jones

Moon in the Gutter by Jean-Jacques Beineix

Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky

One Deadly Summer by Jean Becker

Station for Two by Eldar Ryazanov

The Story of Piera by Marco Ferreri

El Sur by Víctor Erice

Tender Mercies by Bruce Beresford

The Wounded Man by Patrice Chéreau

The Year of Living Dangerously by Peter Weir

Write to us at ratsriviera@gmail.com and on BlueSky at @rivierarats.bsky.social

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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28: 2022 - Triangle of Sadness

Season 3 · Episode 28

Sunday, February 1, 2026 • Duration 02:32:32

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 Gray

Boy from Heaven by Tarik Saleh

Broker by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Brother and Sister (Frère et sœur) by Arnaud Desplechin

Close by Lukas Dhont

Crimes of the Future by David Cronenberg

Decision to Leave by Park Chan-wook

The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne) by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen

EO (Io) by Jerzy Skolimowski

Forever Young (Les Amandiers) by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi

Leila's Brothers by Saeed Roustayi

Mother and Son (Un petit frère) by Léonor Serraille

Nostalgia by Mario Martone

Pacifiction (Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles) by Albert Serra

R.M.N. by Cristian Mungiu

Showing Up by Kelly Reichardt

Stars at Noon by Claire Denis

Tchaikovsky's Wife by Kirill Serebrennikov

Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund

27: 1947 - The Second Festival

Season 3 · Episode 27

Thursday, January 1, 2026 • Duration 01:43:02

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 Decoin

Antoine et Antoinette by Jacques Becker

Boomerang! by Elia Kazan

The Captain's Daughter (La figlia del capitano) by Mario Camerini

The Cat (La gata) by Mario Soffici

The Chase by Arthur Ripley

Crossfire by Edward Dmytryk

The Damned (Les Maudits) by René Clément

Dumbo by Ben Sharpsteen

Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo) by Alberto Lattuada

Ivy by Sam Wood

The Jolson Story by Alfred E. Green

Les jeux sont faits by Jean Delannoy

Lost in the Dark (Sperduti nel buio) by Camillo Mastrocinque

Marouf, the Cairo Cobbler (Marouf Savetier du Caire) by Jean Mauran

Mine Own Executioner by Anthony Kimmins

Paris 1900 by Nicole Vedres

Possessed by Curtis Bernhardt

A Ship Bound for India (Skeep till India land) by Ingmar Bergman

Song of Dolores (La copla de la Dolores) by Benito Perojo

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers by Lewis Milestone

A Tanítónő (The Teacher) by Márton Keleti

Two Women (Två kvinnor) by Arnold Sjostrand

26: 1967 - Blowup

Season 3 · Episode 26

Monday, December 1, 2025 • Duration 02:14:16

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

25: 2014 - Winter Sleep

Season 3 · Episode 25

Saturday, November 1, 2025 • Duration 02:26:44

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

Write to us at ratsriviera@gmail.com

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

Theme music by Joseph Organ

24: 1951 - Miracle In Milan/Miss Julie

Season 3 · Episode 24

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Duration 02:06:17

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

23: 1998 - Eternity And A Day

Season 3 · Episode 23

Monday, September 1, 2025 • Duration 02:20:05

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

22: 1973 - The Hireling/Scarecrow

Season 2 · Episode 22

Friday, June 20, 2025 • Duration 02:16:29

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

21: BONUS - The 2025 Awards

Episode 21

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 59:15

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.

Write to us at ratsriviera@gmail.com

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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