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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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.

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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

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!

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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

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

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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

The full slate of the upcoming 79th Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and Bil and Greg have things to say about it!

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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

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

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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

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

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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