Riviera Rats

Bil Antoniou, Gregory Rosebrugh
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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.

  1. 6d ago

    38: 1965 - The Knack...And How To Get It

    Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 18th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival: The 317th Platoon (La 317ème section) by Pierre Schoendoerffer Always Further On (Tarahumara) (Cada vez más lejos) by Luis Alcoriza The Amphitheatre (The Pit) (El Reñidero) by René Mugica Circus Angel (Fifi la plume) by Albert Lamorisse Clay by Giorgio Mangiamele The Collector by William Wyler The First Day of Freedom (Pierwszy dzien wolnosci) by Aleksander Ford Forest of the Hanged (Padurea spânzuratilor) by Liviu Ciulei The Hill by Sidney Lumet A Girl Danced Into His Life (Az Életbe táncoltatott leány) by Tamás Banovich The Ipcress File by Sidney J. Furie The Knack ...and How to Get It by Richard Lester Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi The Lark (Жаворонок) by Nikita Kurikhin and Leonid Menaker Loving Couples (Älskande par) by Mai Zetterling Men and Women (Noite Vazia) by Walter Hugo Khouri The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità) by Francesco Rosi My Home Is Copacabana (Mitt hem är Copacabanav by Arne Sucksdorff The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos The Sin (الحرام) by Henry Barakat Snakes and Ladders (El juego de la oca) by Manuel Summers There Was an Old Couple (Жили-были старик со старухой) by Grigory Chukhray Torrid Noon (Горещо пладне) by Zako Heskiya Treason (Προδοσία) by Kostas Manoussakis The Uninhibited (Los pianos mecánicos) by Juan Antonio Bardem Yo Yo by Pierre Étaix 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

    38: 1965 - The Knack...And How To Get It

  2. Oct 1

    37: 2013 - Blue Is The Warmest Colour

    Bil and Greg go through the selections of the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Films screened In Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: Behind the Candelabra by Steven Soderbergh Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam A Castle in Italy (Un château en Italie) by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino GriGris by Mahamat Saleh Haroun Heli by Amat Escalante The Immigrant by James Gray Inside Llewyn Davis by Joel and Ethan Coen Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by Arnaud Desplechin Like Father, Like Son by Hirokazu Koreeda Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (Michael Kohlhaas) by Arnaud des Pallières Nebraska by Alexander Payne Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch The Past (Le Passé) by Asghar Farhadi Shield of Straw by Takashi Miike A Touch of Sin by Jia Zhangke Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la fourrure) by Roman Polanski Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) by François Ozon 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

    37: 2013 - Blue Is The Warmest Colour

  3. Sep 1

    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

    36: 1953 - The Wages of Fear

  4. Aug 1

    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

    35: 1990 - Wild At Heart

  5. May 30 ·  Bonus

    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

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

  6. May 6 ·  Bonus

    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

    33: BONUS - 2026 Jury Announcement

  7. May 1

    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

    32: 1977 - Padre Padrone

  8. Apr 12 ·  Bonus

    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

    31: BONUS - 2026 Competition Announcement Reactions
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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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  • Creator
    Bil Antoniou, Gregory Rosebrugh
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Bil Antoniou, Gregory Rosebrugh
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    Riviera Rats

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