Movies

This Sunday we plan to go to the City to see Luther.

Reviews from Roman Catholics aren't very positive. One Catholic blog includes defenses of Purgatory and Indulgences. Not very convincing, but worth a read, lest you think the Roman Catholic Church has reformed itself since the 1500s.

Assignment to self: review the Peasant's Revolt.

In a virulent pamphlet, Against the Thievish and Murderous Hordes of Peasants, Luther called on the princes to "knock down, strangle, and stab...and think nothing so venomous, pernicious, or Satanic as an insurgent."

In 1525 the princes and nobles crushed the revolt at a cost of an estimated 100,000 peasant lives. The surviving peasants considered Luther a false prophet. Many of them returned to Catholicism or turned to more radical forms of the Reformation.

--from Rich Tatum's Glossary of Christian History. (My emphasis in bold print.)

Movies to record:

Wee hours of Saturday morning: Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Sunday morning Oklahoma!, directed by Fred Zinnemann.
Sunday afternoon On The Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan.