Episodes

  • 28: 2022 - Triangle of Sadness
    Feb 1 2026

    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



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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 hrs and 33 mins
  • 27: 1947 - The Second Festival
    Jan 1 2026

    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


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    Theme music by Joseph Organ

    Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • 26: 1967 - Blowup
    Dec 1 2025

    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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    Theme music by Joseph Organ

    Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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    2 hrs and 14 mins
  • 25: 2014 - Winter Sleep
    Nov 1 2025

    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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    Theme music by Joseph Organ

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    2 hrs and 27 mins
  • 24: 1951 - Miracle In Milan/Miss Julie
    Oct 1 2025

    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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    Theme music by Joseph Organ

    Artwork by Leonidas Kouvaris

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    2 hrs and 6 mins
  • 23: 1998 - Eternity And A Day
    Sep 1 2025

    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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    2 hrs and 20 mins
  • 22: 1973 - The Hireling/Scarecrow
    Jun 20 2025

    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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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • 21: BONUS - The 2025 Awards
    May 28 2025

    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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    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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    59 mins