For me, the soul of Cannes and the Riviera is film – to be found in movies that matter as opposed to movies that are profitable. And of course the repository of this soul is the Cannes Film Festival.

The art of cinema is a lush, sensuous art of moving images, light and shadow, music and sound which creates, often, profound insights into the nature of the human experience.

And, for me, Cannes and the Riviera are much like the movie palaces of old — rich, sensual, often garish and pretentious but always fun.

I’ve spent close to 65 years passionately watching movies, and, as Gore Vidal writes in his memoir "Point to Point Navigation" I also say "going to the movies was the only thing I really liked to do."

For most of my career, I worked in the film and television industry traveling twice a year to Cannes, on the Riviera, to attend industry markets, savor the sights, sounds and food and, of course, experience the one of a kind "Festival de Cannes."

My passion is still movies and that passion, along with the unique stories of the Riviera and its flamboyant characters and situations blend into short essays or reports that describe these often larger-than-life humans at play and work. At the same time the art of the motion picture — which I maintain is the great artform of the 20th century — portrays the same propensity for stupidity, greed, evil, love and compassion. I try to pair the two manifestations of life.

I’ve selected these 100 films from my personal experience — films that have touched my psyche or my soul in some way and paired them with moments from my 30 years of sometimes wild Riviera and industry experience.

So the "Report from Cannes" is about people and movies and it’s from Cannes!