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: