El Macondo de Gabo blog: marzo 2015

lunes, 30 de marzo de 2015

JAVI FERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ

Madrid. 23 años. Patinador sobre hielo

Javier Fernández se ha convertido en el primer español en proclamarse campeón del mundo en patinaje sobre hielo. Lo ha hecho este fin de semana en Shanghai.

En su palmarés se acumulan tres medallas de oro en los Campeonatos de Europa, dos medallas de bronce en Campeonatos del Mundo y un cuarto puesto en los Juegos Olímpicos de Sochi (2014).

F E L I C I D A D E S

domingo, 29 de marzo de 2015

Las fotos de la semana: 23 al 29 marzo

Mexico City A woman protests during a march to mark six months since the disappearance of 43 students from a rural school in Ayotzinapa

A protest demanding justice for a woman falsely accused of burning a Quran. Farkhunda, a 27-year-old religious scholar was beaten, run over with a car and burned before her body was thrown into the Kabul River

A women crosses a ditch while balancing a bag of grain on her head in Baraka, DRC

Members of the honour guard in Tokyo, Japan

Visitors walk amongst the cherry blossoms

Kobani, Syria A woman stands on Mistanur hill, where she will celebrate Newroz, the Kurdish new year

domingo, 22 de marzo de 2015

Las fotos de la semana: 16 al 22 marzo 2015

A cyclone tore through the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, flattening buildings and killing at least 24 people. Here, a boy called Samuel kicks a ball as his father Phillip searches through the ruins of their home in Port Vila Dave Hunt. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/mar/16/cyclone-pams-aftermath-in-vanuatu-in-pictures">More images of the aftermath of Cyclone Pam can be seen here</a>

<strong>Jharia, India </strong>Adults and young children carry coal for the UNderground fire which is reported to have been burning since 1916

Photographer Marko Djurica continued his strong reportage from the conflict in Ukraine. Here, a woman rests inside a bus while waiting to cross the Uspenka border between Ukraine and Russia. In a pre-recorded documentary aired this week, Vladimir Putin said that he was ready to put Russia's nuclear forces on alert to ensure the the country’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year

Pelicans compete to catch a fish thrown by a fisherman on a pier in Paracas National Reserve in Ica, Peru

<strong>Valencia, Spain</strong> The annual burning of the Falla of the City Hall of Valencia took place with fireworks first being lit and then the falla structure, this year in the shape of a lion. being set ablaze

sábado, 21 de marzo de 2015

Mark Knopfler, líder de los añorados Dire Straits, ha sacado esta semana un nuevo disco en solitario: Tracker. A la espera de la salida del video de su primer single, veamos en este mini documental la presentación del disco por el propio Mark. Y a continuación, varios videos de este magnífico guitarrista.

Track by track

Going home

The long road

Sailing to Philadelphia

viernes, 20 de marzo de 2015

Los viernes, al cine: Estrenos de la semana

Se estrena esta semana una de gansters. El año más violento se quedó a medio camino de optar a los Oscar, a pesar de las buenas críticas recibidas. Su director, J.C. Chandor, cuenta la historia de un joven empresario que trata de sacar adelante su negocio de transportes de forma decente, pero que no tendrá más remedio que enfrentarse a las mafias que dominan el mismo. Oscar Isaac y Jessica Chastain encabezan el reparto.

Basada en hechos reales, Pride (Orgullo) cuenta los hechos acaecidos en el año 1984 en la Inglaterra gobernada por la Dama de Hierro, Margaret Thatcher. El sindicato nacional de mineros se declaran en huelga. Un colectivo poco afín a este sindicato, el de Gays y Lesbianas, recaudan dinero para ayudar a las familias de los mineros en huelga (el paro llegó a durar 12 meses). La homofobia del sindicato será superada gracias al apoyo recibido, y dos comunidades tan diferentes entre si se unen contra una causa común: derrocar al thatcherismo. Dirige Matthew Warchus.

El año más violento Pride (Orgullo)

Pasolini El hombre más enfadado de Brooklyn

jueves, 19 de marzo de 2015

Bohemian Carsody

martes, 17 de marzo de 2015

Feliz Día de San Patricio 2015

domingo, 15 de marzo de 2015

Las fotos de la semana: 9 al 15 marzo

A boy rows to school using a makeshift canoe out of half a plastic barrel as he makes his way to a floating school in Makoko, Nigeria

<strong>Bone, South Sulawesi, Indonesia </strong>Students are seen crossing a river on a rope on their way to school, after a suspension bridge collapsed due to rain

Children look at books in a kiosk at a park in Havana

A veiled woman walks through the Zafaye refugee camp, outside N’djamena, Chad. More than 5,000 refugees of Chadian descent who fled the fighting in Central African Republic have been living in the camp for over a year. Chad is also hosting thousands of refugees fleeing Boko Haram in Nigeria

<strong>Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip</strong> Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills on the remains of a house that was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014

Hefei, China A customer shops for shoes at a mall in Anhui province

domingo, 8 de marzo de 2015

Las fotos de la semana: 2 al 8 de marzo

A memorial service before the funeral of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov. Several hundred Russians, many carrying red carnations, queued to pay their respects to the Kremlin critic whose murder last week showed the hazards of speaking out against President Putin

A Ukrainian coal miner waits for a bus after emerging from Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, where he was part of a team searching for bodies and clearing debris following an explosion. Officials said the explosion was not linked to nearby fighting between Moscow-backed rebels and Ukrainian government forces. However Kiev accused the separatists of holding up the rescue effort by restricting access.

Displaced Somali families help to push a pick-up truck carrying their belongings from a camp that was closed down by Somali forces, leaving hundreds of families without shelter in the capital Mogadishu.

A television presenter at Tiananmen Square

Villarrica, Chile Volcano Villarrica erupting 750km south of Santiago de Chile. Over 4,000 people have been evacuated due to the risk of floods as snow melts due to the volcano’s eruption

Beijing, China Hostesses jump at Tiananmen square during the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People. Thousands of delegates from across China and the Chinese leadership will gather for its annual legislature meetings

Fern, an Irish Setter from Wexford on the first day of Crufts

viernes, 6 de marzo de 2015

Los viernes, al cine: Estrenos de la semana

Selma es la primera película dedicada íntegramente a Martin Luther King jr., algo que extraña sobremanera pues este símbolo de la defensa de los derechos civiles de la comunidad negra de los EE.UU. merecía algo más. La razón de este aparente olvido reside, curiosamente, en los propios herederos, quienes se han negado a ceder los derechos y han prohibido incluso la publicidad de sus discursos. La película ha recibido malas críticas. Esperemos que algún día haya un buen film sobre este personaje. Una película que esté a la altura de la importancia histórica del Reverendo King.

Un escritor ganador del Pulitzer que se encierra en una habitación de París para acabar su nueva novela. Un ingeniero industrial que roba diseños de moda se enamora de una gitana rumana a la que ayuda para recuperar a su hija secuestrada en la ciudad de Roma. En Nueva York, una mujer lucha por recuperar a su hijo, que vive con su padre y su nueva pareja. Tres historias en tres ciudades emblemáticas dirigidas por Paul Haggis en Tercera persona.