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The 82nd Venice Film Festival may be over, but the conversations on the films that premiered, the things people said, the clothes they wore, and how it affects the Oscar race are still going.Here’s a rundown of the big moments and takeaways from this year’s edition. What won big at the Venice Film Festival? Jim Jarmusch’s quiet film “Father Mother Sister Brother” took the top prize, the Golden Lion. It was a surprise to many who expected that honor to go to “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” which ended up with the runner up award, or “No Other Choice.”Aside from Benny Safdie’s best director win for “The Smashing Machine,” Hollywood players were largely shut out of the awards in favor of a diverse, international selection. Chinese actor Xin Zhilei won best actress for Cai Shangjun’s “The Sun Rises on Us All,” Italian icon Toni Servillo won best actor for “La Grazia” and Swiss actor Luna Wedler took the up-and-comer prize, the Marcello Mastroianni Award, for “Silent Friend.” Who might be an Oscars player? The awards didn’t give many hints, but Venice has been known to launch several best actor campaigns including Joaquin Phoenix in “Joker,”Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” and Adrien Brody in “The Brutalist.” This year the most obvious heavyweight to follow is Dwayne Johnson for his turn as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine.”Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons were also strange and fierce as kidnapped and kidnapper in Yorgos Lanthimos’s provocative “Bugonia.” Oscar Isaac portrayed Victor Frankenstein as a romantic madman and Jacob Elordi was nave and raw as the monster. Amanda Seyfried put a human, feminist, face to the religious sect the shakers in “The Testament of Ann Lee,” and Julia Roberts flexed her acting muscles as a Yale philosophy professor in the midst of a misconduct accusation against a colleague in “After the Hunt.”Filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow and previous Golden Lion winners Guillermo del Toro and Yorgos Lanthimos will also likely be in the conversation for months to come. Why was Seth Rogen everywhere? There’s always some unexpected Hollywood person at the Venice Film Festival who doesn’t seem to be associated with any one film. Sometimes they’ve come in for amfAR, sometimes they’ve been invited by one of the festival’s sponsors. But text chains started blowing up when Seth Rogen started popping up everywhere: Red carpets, press conferences, parties. Don’t be surprised if there’s a Venice episode of “The Studio” in the works: This trip was research, and maybe even a little more. Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried’s sisterhood of the traveling Versace? In a cute, unexpected (possibly highly staged) moment during the festival, Amanda Seyfried commented on Julia Roberts’ Instagram asking to “please let me wear the same outfit.” Three days later, Seyfried was also rocking the Versace blazer, jeans, button up and belt, just with different shoes. It helps that they share a stylist, Elizabeth Stewart. There was a record standing ovation First, let’s just make clear that entertainment trade publications only started tracking Venice standing ovations recently. This year, audiences at the premiere of “The Voice of Hind Rajab” applauded for 22-minutes, surpassing the 18-minute record set last year by “The Room Next Door,” which went on to win the Golden Lion. Even with a limited data set, that’s a long time to clap after a movie.Other standing ovation times from the 82nd festival: “After the Hunt” ((tilde)5 minutes), “Bugonia” ((tilde)6 minutes), “No Other Choice” ((tilde)7 minutes), “Jay Kelly” ((tilde)9 minutes), “The Wizard of the Kremlin” ((tilde)10 minutes), “A House of Dynamite” ((tilde)11 minutes), “Frankenstein” ((tilde)14 minutes), “The Testament of Ann Lee” ((tilde)15 minutes), “The Smashing Machine” ((tilde)15 minutes). Politics and war on the big screen The festival might not take political stances, but politics, and filmmakers grappling with the state of the world, from the Israel-Hamas conflict to nuclear weapons, were clearly top of mind. Kathryn Bigelow set off a warning shot about nuclear weapons and the apparatus of decision making with her urgent, and distressingly realistic, thriller “A House of Dynamite.” Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania made an essential document of the human toll in Gaza with “The Voice of Hind Rajab.” And Olivier Assayas charted the rise of Vladimir Putin in “The Wizard of the Kremlin.”Gaza also dominated conversations off screen too, from a protest that drew an estimated 10,000 people, to awards speeches. Best quotes from the 2025 Venice Film Festival “The real monsters are the men in suits.” Jacob Elordi, who plays Frankenstein’s monster in a big budget Netflix film.“I’ve been very fortunate to have the career that I’ve had and make the films that I have, but there was just this voice inside of me, this little voice, like what if I can do more.” Dwayne Johnson on his transformative, serious turn as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine.”“I consider pretty much all corporate money is dirty money.” Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, when asked about Mubi’s relationship with Sequoia Capital.“How is annihilating the world a good defensive measure? I mean, what are you defending?” Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow on the nuclear stockpiles.“Humanity is facing a reckoning very soon. People need to choose the right path, otherwise, I don’t know how much time we have.” Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on the relevance of “Bugonia.”“Everyone comes out with all these different feelings and emotions and points of views. And you realize what you believe in strongly and what your convictions are because we stir it all up for you. So, you’re welcome.” Julia Roberts on the debates stirred by “After the Hunt.”“It’s time at the end of your life to put the puzzle pieces together and make them fit.” Kim Novak, 92, on receiving the festival’s lifetime achievement award. For more coverage of the Venice Film Festival, visit https://apnews.com/hub/venice-film-festival. Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
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Now here’s a raincoat that won’t be missed in a busy street. Cleverhood, a Rhode Island apparel company, turned weather radar graphics into a colorful pattern for its rain gear, and they used data from real storms to make it. The brand’s Stormy pattern is based on Doppler radar data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of visually intensified weather patterns linked to climate change, the company says. It’s now available on the brand’s $149 Rover Raincape and $129 Anorak jacket. “We are very design-oriented and environmentally concerned,” Cleverhood founder Susan Mocarski tells Fast Company. “The beauty of Doppler radars intrigued us.” The pixels of the weather radar patterns are rendered big across the jacket and cape as color blocks, and each item comes with a hood and pockets. [Photo: Ron Cowie/courtesy Cleverhood] Cleverhood looked at storms from the past 10 years and most from the Northeast U.S. to make the pattern, and the pattern was designed so no two garments look the same. The brand says it has plans to do a Stormy Trench next, and maybe a tote bag. The company donates 5% of sales to “organizations that help make streets safe and more walkable,” as Mocarski believes getting out and walking or bicycling in your community gives it a beating heart. The company’s customers are “primarily people that walk, bike and take public transit as their primary mode of transportation,” Mocarski says, and it shows in some of the rain gear’s bright colorways, like the classic Hello Yellow, or Dazzle, a pattern made of black-and-white stripes. The high-visibility Stormy fits in that same vein. [Photo: Ron Cowie/courtesy Cleverhood] Weather radar patterns make for visually interesting clothes, but NOAA’s pubic data could one day be private. Like other government agencies under President Donald Trump’s second term, NOAA has faced cuts and layoffs that experts worry are degrading weather forecasts. The agency announced in May it would no longer track climate change-fueled weather disaster costs. There’s science behind why the weather radar colors looks so good together, as the cool blues and warm reds and oranges are complementary colors. The colors all mean something, of course. Light green represents light rain, which shifts to yellow, orange, red, and purple as the rain gets heavier. If Cleverhood was looking for a standout pattern that won’t be missed, they found it.
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South Korea said on Monday that it wants hundreds of its citizens, who were arrested last week during a large U.S. immigration raid at a car battery project and are due to be flown home soon, to be allowed to reenter the United States. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun is flying out to Washington on Monday evening and will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his trip to resolve the issue. Cho also said he would be asking for the U.S. visa system for Korean workers to be streamlined in the future. About 300 South Koreans were among 475 arrested on Thursday at the site of a $4.3 billion project by Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution to build batteries for electric cars. It was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative operations. The raid sent shockwaves through South Korea, a major U.S. ally, which has been trying to finalize a U.S. trade deal agreed in late July. It came just 10 days after South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington and the two pledged closer business ties. In addition to potentially fraying bilateral ties, the development has shone fresh light on how many foreign firms investing in the U.S. have struggled to find qualified American workers. Seoul said on Sunday that discussions to arrange the release of workers, who were mostly employed by subcontractors, were largely concluded. A plan is in the works to fly them home on a chartered plane this week under what one South Korean foreign ministry official said would be called a “voluntary departure.” “From the beginning, we negotiated with the premise that there should be no personal disadvantage (to the detained workers),” Cho told a parliamentary hearing on Monday. Details on how the workers may have breached immigration rules have not been released by authorities or the companies, but South Korean lawmakers on Monday said some may have overstepped the boundaries of a 90-day visa waiver programme or a B-1 temporary business visa. South Korea Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Monday that he had heard that some experts had travelled from South Korea to help with a test run of the factory which was due to begin production in October. “You need to get a visa to do a test run, but it’s very difficult to get an official visa. Time was running out, and I think experts went to the United States,” he said. DISMAY IN SOUTH KOREA Seoul has expressed its unhappiness about the arrests and the public release of footage showing the operation which involved armoured vehicles and the shackling of workers. Trump, who has ramped up deportations nationwide as his administration cracks down on illegal immigrants, said last week he had not been aware of the raid. He called those detained “illegal aliens.” On Sunday, he called on foreign companies investing in the U.S. to “respect our Nation’s immigration laws”, but sounded more conciliatory. “Your Investments are welcome, and we encourage you to LEGALLY bring your very smart people, with great technical talent, to build World Class products, and we will make it quickly and legally possible for you to do so,” he said on Truth Social. Hyundai Motor is one of the biggest foreign investors in the United States and is among South Korean companies participating in a pledge of $150 billion in foreign direct investment in the U.S., which comes on top of a $350 billion fund that the South Korean government has separately pledged. A spokesperson for the automaker said some staff had been asked to suspend nonessential trips to the United States. LGES has also suspended most staff business trips to the U.S. and will be recalling South Korea-based employees now in the country. The battery maker said last week it is cooperating with U.S. authorities and had paused construction work on the factory. A Hyundai Motor spokesperson said last week none of the people detained were employed directly by the automaker and that production of electric vehicles at the sprawling site was not affected. The companies declined further comment on Monday. Cho’s trip to the U.S. is due to end on Wednesday. Additional reporting by Ju-min Park, Heejin Kim and Yena Park Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin, Reuters
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