Riviera Rats

Riviera Rats

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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June 20, 2025 136 mins

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 f...

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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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May 23, 2025 135 mins

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 ...

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May 6, 2025 27 mins

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

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April 18, 2025 132 mins

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 v...

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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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March 21, 2025 138 mins

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 ...

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March 7, 2025 118 mins

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 Jos...

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February 14, 2025 94 mins


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...

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January 31, 2025 103 mins

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 Mundrucz...

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January 17, 2025 81 mins

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)...

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January 3, 2025 117 mins

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...

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December 6, 2024 105 mins

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

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November 22, 2024 103 mins

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 Ulri...

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November 8, 2024 80 mins

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 ...

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October 25, 2024 73 mins

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 Maet...

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October 11, 2024 91 mins

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 ...

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September 27, 2024 81 mins

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 ...

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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 (Mathi...

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August 30, 2024 59 mins

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

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