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Bil Antoniou, Gregory Rosebrugh

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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  • S4 · E36
    September 1 · 2 hr 50 min

    36: 1953 - The Wages of Fear

    Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 6th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival: 1 April 2000 by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Awaara by Raj Kapoor The Bandit of Brazil by Lima Barreto Barabbas by Alf Sjöberg Bongolo by André Cauvin Call Me Madam by Walter Lang Children of Hiroshima by Kaneto Shindo Come Back, Little Sheba by Daniel Mann Dedication of the Great Buddha by Teinosuke Kinugasa Doña Francisquita by Ladislao Vajda Él by Luis Buñuel Emergency Ward by Tulio Demicheli Endless Horizons (opening film) by Jean Dréville Flamenco by Edgar Neville For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth by Arne Mattsson Gendai-jin by Minoru Shibuya Green Magic by Gian Gaspare Napolitano The Heart of the Matter by George More O'Ferrall I Confess by Alfred Hitchcock Intimate Relations by Charles Frank Light in the High Plains by Víctor Urruchúa Lili by Charles Walters Monsieur Hulot's Holiday by Jacques Tati Perfidy by Vladimir Pogačić Peter Pan by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson Rossana by Emilio Fernández The Sun Shines Bright by John Ford Terminal Station by Vittorio De Sica The Three Perfect Wives by Roberto Gavaldón La vie passionnée de Clémenceau by Gilbert Prouteau The Village by Leopold Lindtberg The Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot The Wayward Wife by Mario Soldati Welcome Mr. Marshall! by Luis García Berlanga The White Reindeer by Erik Blomberg Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • S4 · E35
    August 1 · 2 hr 37 min

    35: 1990 - Wild At Heart

    Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 43rd Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival: Captive of the Desert (La captive du desert), Raymond Depardon, France Come See the Paradise, Alan Parker, United States Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France, Hungary Daddy Nostalgie, Bertrand Tavernier, France The Ear (Ucho), Karel Kachyňa, Czechoslovakia Everybody's Fine (Stanno tutti bene), Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, France Hidden Agenda, Ken Loach, United Kingdom Interrogation (Przesłuchanie), Ryszard Bugajski, Poland Ju Dou, Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, China, Japan The King's Whore (La putain du roi), Axel Corti, France, Italy, United Kingdom Mother (Мать), Gleb Panfilov, Soviet Union, Italy Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard, France, Switzerland Rodrigo D: No Future (Rodrigo D: No futuro), Víctor Gaviria, Colombia The Sting of Death, Kōhei Oguri, Japan Taxi Blues (Такси-блюз), Pavel Lungin, Soviet Union Tilaï, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France, Germany, United Kingdom White Hunter Black Heart, Clint Eastwood, United States Wild at Heart, David Lynch, United States Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • #34
    May 30 · 54 min

    34: BONUS - The 2026 Cannes Film Festival Recap with special guest Nicholas Bell

    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 @rivierarats 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

  • #33
    May 6 · 32 min

    33: BONUS - 2026 Jury Announcement

    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 @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E32
    May 1 · 2 hr 33 min

    32: 1977 - Padre Padrone

    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 Altman The American Friend (Der Amerikanische Freund) by Wim Wenders An Average Little Man (Un borghese piccolo piccolo) by Mario Monicelli Backbone (Kičma) by Vlatko Gilić Bang! by Jan Troell Black Joy by Anthony Simmons Bound for Glory by Hal Ashby Budapest Tales (Budapesti mesék) by István Szabó Car Wash by Michael Schultz The Duellists by Ridley Scott Elisa, My Life (Elisa, vida mía) by Carlos Saura Group Portrait with a Lady (Gruppenbild mit Dame) by Aleksandar Petrović The Hunters (Οι Κυνηγοί) by Theo Angelopoulos Iphigenia (Ιφιγένεια) by Michael Cacoyannis J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) by Jean Beaudin The Lacemaker (La dentellière) by Claude Goretta The Lorry (Le camion) by Marguerite Duras The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani The Purple Taxi (Un taxi mauve) by Yves Boisset Solemn Communion (La Communion solennelle) by René Féret A Special Day (Una giornata particolare) by Ettore Scola Wounded Game (Подранки) by Nikolai Gubenko Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • #31
    April 12 · 51 min

    31: BONUS - 2026 Competition Announcement Reactions

    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 @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E30
    April 1 · 2 hr 47 min

    30: 2001 - The Son's Room

    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 Aoyama Distance by Hirokazu Kore-eda I'm Going Home (Je rentre à la maison / Vou para Casa) by Manoel de Oliveira In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) by Jean-Luc Godard Kandahar (قندهار) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf The Man Who Wasn't There by Joel Coen Millennium Mambo (千禧曼波) by Hou Hsiao-hsien Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrmann Mulholland Drive by David Lynch No Man's Land (Ничија земља) by Danis Tanović The Officers' Ward (La Chambre des officiers) by François Dupeyron Pau and His Brother (Pau i el seu germà) by Marc Recha The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) by Michael Haneke The Pledge by Sean Penn The Profession of Arms (Il mestiere delle armi) by Ermanno Olmi Replay (La repetition) by Catherine Corsini Roberto Succo by Cédric Kahn Shrek by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson Taurus (Телец) by Alexander Sokurov The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) by Nanni Moretti Va savoir by Jacques Rivette Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水) by Shōhei Imamura What Time Is It There? (你那邊幾點) by Tsai Ming-liang Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E29
    March 1 · 2 hr 16 min

    29: 1983 - The Ballad of Narayama

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E28
    February 1 · 2 hr 32 min

    28: 2022 - Triangle of Sadness

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E27
    January 1 · 1 hr 43 min

    27: 1947 - The Second Festival

    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 Ziegfeld Follies by Vincente Minnelli Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E26
    Dec 1, 2025 · 2 hr 14 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • S3 · E25
    Nov 1, 2025 · 2 hr 26 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S3 · E24
    Oct 1, 2025 · 2 hr 6 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S3 · E23
    Sep 1, 2025 · 2 hr 20 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S2 · E22
    Jun 20, 2025 · 2 hr 16 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats 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

  • #21
    May 28, 2025 · 59 min

    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. Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S2 · E20
    May 23, 2025 · 2 hr 15 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S2 · E19
    May 6, 2025 · 27 min

    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. Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S2 · E18
    Apr 18, 2025 · 2 hr 12 min

    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 Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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

  • S2 · E17
    Apr 14, 2025 · 51 min

    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. Follow us on Instagram @rivierarats and on Bluesky at @rivierarats.bsky.social 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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