Empires - Martin Luther
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Movie Reviews of Empires - Martin Luther
Movie Review: Historical Theology at its best.
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything that applies to excellent film making such as script, location, actors, historical research and photography, is very well executed in this fine presentation of a true Medieval historical character and event. I can't truly find any faults that are worth criticism. This Martin Luther PBS presentation is also a great primer for understanding the time period and its crisis.
I am Roman Catholic and find Luther's anger with Rome in this presentation as fair and justified historically.
Thanks PBS for your objectivity and excellent film making.
Yours,
Don Carroll
Movie Review: Great Documentry about Martin Luther!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great documentry about Luther's life.
I recommend this DVD to people who are interested about Martin Luther and how God used him to reform the church. It's a well put documentry by PBS.
**Watch the DVD movie titled 'Luther' w/Jospeh Fiennes playing.
Movie Review: Bought another copy
Summary: 5 Stars
I already have one copy of this DVD and thought, just to be on the safe side, that I needed to have a spare copy. One of the best productions and history of Luther and his cause.Movie Review: Effective cinematic slight of hand (3 and a half stars)
Summary: 4 Stars
Despite its modest budget, this PBS docudrama on the life and significance of Martin Luther manages to be accessible, engaging, and informative. It combines a talking-heads approach--the testimony of six Luther scholars--with a flashback skeletal narrative--Martin Luther, played by Timothy West, reflecting on his life while on his "last journey."
Each of the scholars is more animated and communicative than is frequently the case in such documentaries, and their language, along with that of Liam Neeson's 3rd person narrator, is consistently direct and straightforward. As Luther, West may be the weak addition to the mix. His arch eyebrows, along with his curiously winking glances at the camera, make it difficult to tell whether he's sad, glad, pensive, apprehensive, or simply clueless about what he's doing in this movie.
Unlike at least three theatrical releases with the same title, this "Luther" makes little reference to Luther's wife, family and colleagues, but it does offer its own insights: Luther's anti-Semiticism, his support of state authorities who exterminated 100,000 rebellious peasants, and above all his strengths as a writer. The Luther who emerges is a man of extremes but also an individual of heroic fearlessness, absolute integrity, and undeniable global influence.
Credit the striking, panoramic natural scenes and the music score (though too close to Phillip Glass for my taste) for helping the viewer forget that this is a movie in which much is told but very little happens.
Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 4 Stars
This documentary is modest but excellent. The budget is small; there's not a whole lot in the way of historical re-enactments; but the thing works - it's a very fine overview of the basics of the life of the key man of the 1500s. One thing I particularly appreciated was the pacing - it's not got a lot of jumpy, flashy editing cuts, it moves along at a stately pace suitable to the subject. I thought the talking heads were well chosen and very good on camera - passionate about their subject, knowledgeable, able to share what they know in accessible language.
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