Master documentarist Patricio Guzman studies Chile's terrible history of genocide and political repression through its oceans and the voice of water By THR Staff It’s hard to follow up on such a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that ...

Fabulous tales of fortunes in 1924, freshwater pearls taken from Mississippi River mussels are still told along the shores of Lake Pepin and in the declining pearl button cities like Muscatine, Iowa.

The button has long been a favoured, decorative feature in fashion for both men and women, with the pearl button adding exclusivity and desirability to garments for both. John F. Boepple originally ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa - The story of the pearl button industry in Muscatine is much like a button itself, its circular and when properly polished, will shine. “If you polish this history like a pearl, ...

Patricio Guzmán’s The Pearl Button has the distinction of winning this year’s Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear prize for Best Script — as a documentary. A fall limited release is in the works for the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Pearl Button is another Patricio Guzmán film. So unpack the superlatives. This Chilean documentarist made ...

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There’s the temptation to throw out a big, (somewhat) cheeky comparison and say we’re looking at the most existentially heavy and historically dense film about water since Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, but ...