"Rear Window," also made in 1954, remains a finely observed study of city dwellers, he said.
His poems, too, are built from finely observed details and portraits of the England of council flats and tea towels.
The movie unfolds instead as a series of finely observed scenes of Lex's deterioration.
Vivid, unflinching, finely observed, "Streetwise" is a powerful and intensely frightening picture of the inner city.
Their figures are at once lively, finely observed, and gracefully combined in groups designed to fit the ten panels of the gallery.
Folk-rock lives on in the finely observed, psychologically acute songs of Cliff Eberhardt.
Only the passages about her course of chemotherapy - finely observed and affecting - live up to the writing in the book's "other" novel.
Taylor's writing was, once again, finely observed.
Her show-stealing performance was also a model of subtle acting and finely observed detail in a role that can border on caricature.
A rich, finely observed, uncondescending social drama from Alexander Payne ("Election").