The film emphasizes period style while seemingly ignoring action or novelty.
Instead the film emphasizes the strangeness and complexity of the conflict, and also the endlessness that seems to be its most salient feature.
Since Mr. Harlin and others involved in the film emphasized the script's debt to Human Rights Watch, a reporter asked some of the group's Georgian-Russian war investigators to view the film for comment.
The entire thrust of the film — emphasized by the atmosphere-setting scenes of littered slums and overwhelming crowds — is that in the Indian maelstrom the truth can't be found.
Produced for the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, the film emphasizes the connections between Ms. Monk's working methods and Buddhist practice, and there are moments, as when she visits the Zen teacher John Daido Loori, when the subject seems to turn from art to religion.
It should have been his magnum opus, but, we are told, Welles absconded to Brazil before he was done with it, frittering away money on "It's All True," an omnibus film emphasizing racial and cultural multiplicity in Latin America.
In allowing Freud to step out of time, to look back on his early life in the midst of living it, the film emphasizes both his superhuman perspicacity and his almost inhuman detachment from his own life.
Because much of that incandescence emanates from thousands of light years away, the film emphasizes, astronomy is really a study of the past — eons of it — the better to discover who we are, where we came from and where we might be headed.
Using data and personal stories of mothers who have been discriminated against in the workplace, the film emphasizes that mothers are less likely to be hired, will make less money, and are more scrutinized for wrongdoing than either single women or men.
The film emphasizes the fierce, frightening intensity of Crawford's offscreen character, largely a product of her own hard childhood, and it brings out a simple and powerful idea: actors can't give onscreen what they don't already possess within themselves.
