Monday, December 18, 2017

Greetings from Ourense II (the payback!)

The Advanced English Students from the Ourense's School of Languages, and their wonderful teacher, wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!






Friday, July 7, 2017

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

(Information from Wikipedia)


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy mini-series made by BBC TV. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). The mini-series, which stars Alec GuinnessIan RichardsonMichael JaystonAnthony BateIan BannenGeorge Sewell, and Michael Aldridge, was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979 and in the United States beginning on 29 September 1980.

English subtitles. 


Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Greetings from Ourense.

My classmates and our wonderful teacher of FCE in the Ourense's language schoool wish you a happy new year 2017. 





Regards. 

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Trap.

The modern concept and definition of "freedom", by Adam Curtis.

OS, with Spanish subtitles. 








Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Bobby Fischer: against the world.

This is a documentary that is looking into the life of the late chess Grandmaster and eleventh World Champion Bobby Fischer. It consolidates interviews with chess players Anthony Saidy, Larry Evans, Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar, Garry Kasparov, Asa Hoffmann, Friðrik Ólafsson, Lothar Schmid and others. It incorporates never-before-seen footage from the World Chess Championship in 1972.

This entrancing film archives the ascent and fall of chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer. It isn't generally about chess; it is more focused on a man who was fixated by it. As a consequence of his quest for flawlessness on the chess board, he, piece by piece, lost his own mental health.  The power of the psyche diversions important to succeed in top level chess flooded into the individual existence of Fischer until he turned into a completely fledged neurotic schizophrenic.
The ultimate result of this lifestyle brought up his public anti-Semite and September 11th ravings. This clearly demonstrated his deteriorating mental condition. His genius on the chess board was driven by his condition more than anything else.


Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Edgar Allan Poe: Love, death and women.


Crime author Denise Mina investigates the live and work of one of the world's greatest horror writers: Edgar Allan Poe. The relationships between Poe and the women in his life. 

A BBC documentary, subtitled in Spanish. 
















- 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.