How green was my valley.

1941.


Director: John Ford. 

Writers: Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn. 

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee...

This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in a family of 6 brothers and 1 sister and the film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty in a Wales caught in an irreversible shift from a pastoral to an industrialized society. The story, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, is accented by an impressive background of Welsh choral music and quaint patterns of speech.

BBC: The great spanish crash.

Enjoy it.

A new link (youtube has closed the link above). 

Snag films

SnagFilms is a website that offers advertising-supported documentary films. Films are streamed on the website, which contains a library of around 3,000 films. Filmmakers can submit documentaries for consideration as well. The site includes documentary films produced by National Geographic and PBS and titles such as Super Size Me, The Times of Harvey Milk and Nanking.

Lovecraft. Fear of the Unknown

H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction having inspired such writers as Stephen King, Robert Bloch and Neil Gaiman. The influence of his Cthulhu mythos can be seen in film (Re-Animator, Hellboy, and Alien), games (The Call of Cthulhu role playing enterprise), music (Metallica, Iron Maiden) and pop culture in general.

But what led an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature's most far-reaching mythologies? What attracts even the minds of the 21st century to these stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods?

LOVECRAFT: FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN is a chronicle of the life, work and mind that created these weird tales as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon , Caitlin Kiernan, and Peter Straub.

Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death and Women

Crime author Denise Mina investigates the life and work of one of the world's greatest horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe. The relationships between Poe and the women in his life - mother, wife, paramour and muse - were tenuous at best, disastrous at worst, yet they provided inspiration and stimulus for some of the most terrifying and influential short stories of the early 19th century.

Travelling between New York, Virginia and Baltimore, Mina unravels Poe's tortuous and peculiar relationships. Dramatised inserts take us into the minds of Poe and his women through their own letters, journals and published writing 

Love and death

Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen. It is a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, respectively, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates.

Coming between Allen's Sleeper and Annie Hall, it is in many respects an artistic transition between the two. Allen considers it the funniest film he had made to that time.

Programa intensivo de inglés na Escola de Finanzas de Coruña

A escola de finanzas presenta un programa intensivo de inglés de 240 horas impartidas entre xaneiro e xuño para nivel B-2 ou First a impartir nas súas instalacións de Oleiros. Por outra parte se espera curso tamén para o verán. Contémplase a posibilidade de horario de mañá, tarde ou fin de semana. 

Máis información no teléfono 902 922 127, no mail info@escueladefinanzas.edu.es ou na páxina web, en http://www.escueladefinanzas.edu.es/es/summer-school/cursos/intensive-business-english-course-intermediate e en http://www.escueladefinanzas.edu.es/es/summer-school/cursos/intensive-business-english-course-vantage. 

Graciñas a Venancio Salcines pola información. 

Cambridge English games.

Games are a great way to practise your English and make a change from the usual course of study. All of our games use vocabulary from Cambridge English exams so as well as improving your general English you can be sure they are relevant to your English level.

CEFR levels: from A1 to C1.

Topics of structural engineering and structural analysis.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CTSCIVIL

V/H/S

Directors:  Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner…

Writers:  Glenn McQuaid, David Bruckner…

Stars:  Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes and Adam Wingard 

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Watch here. 

Life in a day

By Ridley & Tony Scott. 

An evening of Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart



The Sphynx



The cask of Amontillado



The pit and the pendulum

The raven



The last man on Earth.

1964

Director: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow

Writers: William F. Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, Ubaldo Ragona, Richard Matheson (Novel)

Stars: Vincent Price. 

It's a long way to learn English...

Marchiña ahi! XD

Ridin' down the highway

Goin' to a show
Stop in all the by-ways
Playin' rock 'n' roll
Gettin' robbed
Gettin' stoned
Gettin' beat up
Broken boned
Gettin' had
Gettin' took
I tell you folks
It's harder than it looks

It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll
If you think it's easy doin' one night stands
Try playin' in a rock roll band
It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll

Hotel, motel
Make you wanna cry
Lady do the hard sell
Know the reason why
Gettin' old
Gettin' grey
Gettin' ripped off
Under-paid
Gettin' sold
Second hand
That's how it goes
Playin' in a band

It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll
If you wanna be a star on stage and scream
Look out it's rough and mean
It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll

The rise of evil.

Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian TV miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after World War I and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May 2003 on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received twoEmmy awards, for Art Direction and Sound Editing.

Yes, we can.

Duel

1971. 

Director: Steven Spielberg. 

Writer: Richard Matheson. 

Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott. 

A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. 

The apartment.

1960. 

Director: 

Billy Wilder

Writers: 

Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

Stars:

 Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Novelas Rodríguez Alvarez

A lot of books in english and spanish, often in english, spanish, french and italian. In pdf and mp3. A nice site for students and teachers. 

Killin them softly

Dave Chappelle returns to D.C. and riffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs, Sesame Street and more.

The history of English

Birth of a language. 

English goes underground. 

Rowan Atkinson & Hugh Laurie.

William Shakespeare has an interview with his producer.

Another sketch. 

Trainspotting

1996

Director: Danny Boyle

Writers: Irvine Welsh (novel), John Hodge (screenplay)

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller 

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean upand get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Viva la vida!

I used to rule the world

Seas would rise when I gave the word

Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes

Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

Be my mirror, my sword and shield

My missionaries in a foreign field

For some reason I can't explain

Once you go there was never

Never an honest word

And that was when I ruled the world

It was the wicked and wild wind

Blew down the doors to let me in

Shattered windows and the sound of drums

People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait

For my head on a silver plate

Just a puppet on a lonely string

Oh who would ever want to be king?

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

Be my mirror, my sword and shield

My missionaries in a foreign field

For some reason I can't explain

I know Saint Peter won't call my name

Never an honest word

But that was when I ruled the world

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

Be my mirror, my sword and shield

My missionaries in a foreign field

For some reason I can't explain

I know Saint Peter won't call my name

Never an honest word

But that was when I ruled the world

Learn French!

http://youlearnfrench.blogspot.com.es/

It's a wonderful life.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975

Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

Writing credits: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle

King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.

Voters in Galicia go to the polls in regional elections

19 October 2012 

Voters in the Spanish region of Galicia go to the polls this weekend - amid a growing expectation that Spain will soon ask for a rescue deal from the Eurozone.

The election is a key test for the ruling centre-right Popular Party which has brought in a raft of austerity measures.

The Spanish Government was keen to avoid asking for a bailout before the elections.

Tom Burridge reports from Galicia

"SIR! NO SIR!"

2005

Director: David Zeiger

Writer:  David Zeiger

Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner and Joe Bangert

This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.

This is England.

Director: Shane Meadows

Writer: Shane Meadows

Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham and Jo Hartley|See full cast and crew

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. 

The wicker man

Director:  Robin Hardy

Writer:  Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)

Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Diane Cilento

A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Click here. 

From Spain to UK

Atópome con esta curiosa páxina web: información para aprender inglés, ofertas de traballo en Inglaterra que requiren dominio do castelán, mapas e información xeral sobre a vida en Inglaterra...

Aquí vos queda, se vos é útil alégrome. 

The Ulster trouble

The BBC Peter Taylor Documentary on the Ulster. 

This series includes a history of the IRA and Sinn Fein over the past 30 years, an intimate account of the lives of loyalist paramilitaries and the role of the British armed forces in Northern Ireland.

Provos. Four parts with english subtitles. 

Loyalists. Three parts. 

Brits. Three parts. 

Almost famous

Director:  Cameron Crowe

Writer: Cameron Crowe

Stars: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand and Kate Hudson

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.

Working in Australia.

Se tendes interés por traballar nun gran país como Australia, e non neste coto privado de caciques, aquí tendes acceso a información para emigrar ou estudar. Non me metín nos enlaces para comprobar de qué iba, así que o uso desta páxina é responsabilidade vosa. 

Se eu fóra un pouco máis novo, carall...

One-moment meditation

Enjoy.

And more in this link. 

The silence of the lambs

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres. It was directed by Jonathan Demme and stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, and Scott Glenn. It is based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, his second to feature Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.

In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".

The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, and grossed over $272 million. The film was the third film to win Oscars in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first winner of Best Picture widely considered to be a horror film, and only the second such film to be nominated in the category, after The Exorcist in 1973. The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011.

Ofertas de traballo no Reino Unido.

Un blogue onde se publican ofertas de traballo do Reino Unido para castelán falantes. 

Tamén esta outra páxina para emigración en xeral. 

Gandhi (the movie)

Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of non-violent protest.

Director: 

Richard Attenborough

Writer: 

John Briley

Stars:

 Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud and Candice Bergen

The Ulster loyalists

The Shankill Butchers is the name given to an Ulster loyalist gang, many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). 

The gang conducted paramilitary activities during the 1970s in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was most notorious for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians. The Shankill Butchers killed at least 30 people (including a significant number of Protestants) in sectarian attacks, paramilitary feuds, personal grudges and bombing raids. 

Despite extensive police resources channelled towards their capture, a wall of silence created by a mixture of fear and respect in the Shankill community, provided few leads that could be followed.

This is another documentary covering a murderous feud between rival paramilitary godfathers from Northern Ireland's Loyalist community. After the IRA and Loyalist ceasefires led to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and relative peace in Ulster, some paramilitaries began using their 'skills' in violence to begin making money in criminal enterprises.

With an unhealthy mix of power, money and violence - clashes over personalities and profits is inevitable. This feud between Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair and John 'Grugg' Gregg resulted in a number of deaths and was only settled when dozens of people from Adair's faction were forced out of Northern Ireland for good.

12 angry men.

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt. In the United States (both then and now), a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous. The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film's opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse and ends with the jury's final instructions before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room. The total time spent outside of the jury room is three minutes out of the full 96 minutes of the movie.

12 Angry Men explores many techniques of consensus-building, and the difficulties encountered in the process, among a group of men whose range of personalities adds intensity and conflict. Apart from two of the jurors swapping names while leaving the courthouse, no names are used in the film: the defendant is referred to as "the boy" and the witnesses as the "old man" and "the lady across the street".

In 2007, 12 Angry Men was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".