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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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