Still, with a better choice of subject matter, he's a painter to reckon with.
The real-life romance behind the film could not have better advertised its subject matter: a Jewish American film director and son of a Zionist mother meets a Palestinian woman at an art exhibition, falls in love, reads about her traumatic childhood under Israeli occupation and brings her moving story to the screen.
This could come about through a conversation, by reading an article in my field, or simply as a result of the fruitful deliberations of an inquisitive mind as it struggles to better understand the subject matter.
He lived on the streets for several days to better understand the subject matter as well as talk to former or still-using drug addicts.
This team of subject-matter experts with execution momentum is better than an intracompany bootstrap.
The curators had hoped to get a better understanding of the subject matter.
The channel is counting on Mr. Donahue to handle that kind of subject matter better than Ms. Chung.
But the downtown space suited the subject matter better: somewhat gritty, somewhat flashy and a stone's throw from many of the Greenwich Village clubs and other historic spaces highlighted on the museum's detailed, white polymer model of Manhattan.
Her first book, in 1968, was a slender monograph on the great and most mysterious of rococo artists, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), a brilliant coup in which the first couple of hundred words encapsulate Watteau's elusive style and subject matter better than most writers could do in a volume.
They may not be as densely detailed and finessed as a larger and better resourced film – in subject matter, Jeremy Sims' 2010 first world war pic Beneath Hill 60 comes to mind – but there's never a moment when you cross your arms and think no, these sets don't look real.
