KNIFE IN THE WATER

Hi everyone. I`m not really sure about my favorite movie, I think that I don't have, but i will try. I choose "knife in the water", the first film of Roman Polanski (also as co-written). Knife in the Water was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1963 Academy Awards, the first Polish production to receive this kind of recognition. One of the reasons why I like this film cause there are only three characters: Andrzej (Leon Stanisław Niemczyk), Krystyna (Jolanta Umecka) and a young man (Zygmunt Malanowicz) that make an incredible psychological atmosphere. A married polish couple pick up a young man in the road and invite him on board of their yacht, and everything happend there: psychological tension grows as the two men compete for the woman’s attention. A storm forces them ward off below deck, and tension builds to a violent climax in a claustrophobic space. I like the scene when the young man plays with his pocket knife in his hand, is like a metaphor of the entire movie . In the Polanski debut we can see the elemental characteristics of him: deep situacions, sexual tension and the psychologic drama are present in all film. I like the others elements like the music and cinematography. I like black and white movies a lot, I don’t feel old see these, I feel connected with other time and other sensibility. I really enjoy watching this movie and I totally recommend this cause you will having a good time. 

A USEFUL TOOL

Hello classmates, today I will show you a good website that is helpful for me and my class: Dropbox (I have to say  that Google is the best website in the world, but all of yours know that). Dropbox is a file hosting service with a big storage capacity. In my class, we use this web for upload different materials like images of pictures, texts and summary texts, power point presentations, class recordings and conferences, etc. The items in Dopbox are organized in folders from where you can download. This website provides and excellent quality for the users, is fast and allows synchronize many contents. I recommend using dropbox as a tool because is very friendly and easy to use, you don't need to be an expert user or something like that.        

ZIGGY PLAYED GUITAR

Is difficult to me choose only one favorite singer or band, but David Bowie would be close of this. Bowie is hard to classify in a determinated genre or type of music, but definitely rock music would be present in all his career. I like Bowie cause his music is too versatile and influent for music in general. I like very much his Berlin era albums, cause the sound of this is pretty deep and dark, but if I had to choose some favorite song would be "Station to station" found in his album with the same name. I like this song cause its musical structure is very unusual, is much longer than most of popular songs and has many unexpected rhythm changes.         

My autobiography

My name is Felipe Quijada Aravena. I was born on april first, 1991 in Providencia, Santiago, now I live in Quinta Normal. My father work as an accountant in the administration of a clean service plant, my mother is a paramedic and she work in public hospital. I've got a sister, she has 14 years old and she studied at the school. I studied musical composition for two years but now I'm second year student of theory and history of arts at Universidad de Chile. I had a musical band for some years but we separated for time troubles, we play in some places like universities and schools, I played the guitar. I like literature and movies too, specially Kubrick`s films Space Odissey and The Shining.

Hi everyone

I'm Felipe Quijada and I'm studying theory and history of arts. In the english class I would like write about topics relationated with our career and others topics of general interest: art, movies, literature, music, travel and entertainment. So, I hope you like these topics and comment if you want. Cheers.