David Bordwell is Trying to Butter Me Up Once Again

Sure, he doesn’t know me from Adam, but… why else would he be writing things like this:

I became convinced that martial arts movies from Japan and Hong Kong constituted as important a contribution to film aesthetics as did the Soviet Montage movement.

That, from the man who co-authored the definitive film 101 text book.

Read the rest of the article, which contrasts Asian action and the deplorable state of American choreography, at the Bordwell Blog:

A glance at blows

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