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jodyedgarus · 6 years ago

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Louisiana Tech Was The UConn Of The ’80s

The very first women’s NCAA basketball tournament was held in 1982, and Louisiana Tech took center stage. The Lady Techsters had already compiled a 109-9 record over the previous three seasons, winning the 1981 AIAW Championship (the precursor to the women’s tourney) with a perfect 34-0 record. Led by Wade Trophy winner1 Pam Kelly, the team put the finishing touches on another title in 1982 by defeating Cheyney and legendary coach C. Vivian Stringer in the final. It was the first of two NCAA championships Louisiana Tech would win in the 1980s and started a run of seven No. 1 seeds across nine NCAA tournaments.

Louisiana Tech was the UConn of the women’s NCAA tourney’s early era. But aside from a few more strong seasons in the 1990s, it’s been downhill since. The Lady Techsters haven’t made the NCAA field since 2011 — at 14-14 this season, they aren’t likely to end that drought soon — and they haven’t had an All-American since Tamicha Jackson in 2000.

Louisiana Tech isn’t alone among once-great programs whose talent pipelines have dried up. A number of teams that were the titans of the early NCAA tournament have struggled in recent decades. And in their place, a new ruling class of schools has emerged to become the defining programs of the modern age. In a championship as young as the women’s tournament, it’s been fascinating to watch the rise and fall of programs that, not very long ago, were in a very different place.

To visualize the progress of women’s programs in the absence of game-level data, such as our Elo ratings, we can use NCAA Tournament seeds as a proxy for team strength over time. This doesn’t explicitly factor in how a team performs in the tournament itself, but it does measure the general quality of a team’s entire season — plus, higher seeds tend to win more in the tournament anyway2. To measure this, we awarded “seed points” in proportion to a given seed number’s expected wins in the tournament, calibrated to a 100-point scale where the No. 1 seed gets 100 points, No. 2 gets 70 points, and so forth.3

A more basic scoring system might assign 16 points to a No. 1 seed, 15 to a No. 2, etc., all the way down to 1 point for a 16 seed. But that would understate the power of a high seed: Instead of being only twice as valuable as, say, a 9 seed, a No. 1 seed wins about seven times as many games during the average tournament.

Averaging those seed-based point totals over all the women’s tournaments held since 1982, here are the top overall programs of the entire NCAA tourney era.

Which women’s programs have been most successful during the NCAA tournament era?

Seed points* in NCAA tournaments held for women’s programs, by decade and overall since 1982

Seed Points Per Tournament, by decade School 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Overall 1 Tennessee 73.7 95.4 87.4 68.9 82.1 2 UConn 2.2 72.0 89.4 100.0 68.4 3 Stanford 15.7 83.3 51.1 77.4 58.5 4 Duke 2.7 23.3 89.4 55.3 44.5 5 Georgia 65.0 45.7 42.9 24.6 44.0 6 Louisiana Tech 92.6 60.1 27.1 1.5 44.0 7 Texas 76.4 29.8 35.0 35.1 42.6 8 Maryland 43.5 20.8 38.6 50.4 37.7 9 North Carolina 25.4 38.3 62.5 20.2 37.7 10 Notre Dame 0.0 10.9 35.9 93.4 35.4 11 Penn St. 31.0 48.7 32.3 19.6 33.4 12 Ohio St. 46.1 15.5 36.2 33.8 32.1 13 Purdue 4.2 50.1 47.4 17.5 31.5 14 Baylor 0.0 0.0 41.1 83.7 31.5 15 Virginia 40.8 58.4 19.3 4.9 31.0 16 Vanderbilt 11.1 46.9 48.5 10.5 30.8 17 LSU 25.2 16.8 60.0 17.4 30.5 18 Old Dominion 57.2 42.5 17.1 0.0 28.5 19 Iowa 30.1 43.1 11.2 20.0 26.0 20 NC State 41.3 26.6 19.5 12.9 24.6

*Seed points award a score on a 100-point scale; a No. 1 seed gets 100 points, while the rest descend in proportion to the seed’s expected wins during the tournament.

Source: NCAA

Some teams, such as Tennessee, have been relatively consistent throughout the NCAA era. Although the Lady Vols were at their best under coach Pat Summitt during the 1990s, ranking first among all programs in seed points per tournament, they were also the third-best program of the 2000s according to our metric, fourth-best of the 1980s and even fifth-best of the 2010s, though the past few years haven’t been as strong by Tennessee standards. (The Vols probably won’t be adding to their tally this season, either: Tennessee is currently 18-11 and ranks 63rd in the RPI ratings, making it a bubble team at best for this year’s bracket.)

Maryland and North Carolina have also been relatively good throughout the history of the women’s tournament. But more striking on the list above is how many programs followed the Louisiana Tech path — dominating the early days of the tourney, only to drop off the face of the Earth later. In addition to the Lady Techsters, three other programs — Long Beach State, Southern Cal and Old Dominion — have seen the biggest drop-off in seed points per tournament between the tournament’s first two decades and its two most recent.

At the other end of the spectrum, we have the programs that started slow and picked up steam into the present day. And as hard as it is to believe now, Connecticut wasn’t always the unstoppable force we see today. The Huskies didn’t make their first NCAA tournament appearance until 1989 and didn’t win a championship before 1995. Now it’s shocking news when UConn might not be a No. 1 seed, and it’s currently riding a streak of 11 straight Final Four berths. According to our metric, no team’s fortunes have improved more between the NCAA tourney’s early period in the 1980s and the current era than the Huskies’.

Other stunning out-of-nowhere success stories include current No. 1 Baylor, which made its first NCAA tournament in 2001(!); defending champion Notre Dame, which didn’t win an NCAA tournament game until 1996; and Duke, which — despite the success of its men’s team — failed to make much noise on the women’s side until the late 1990s/early 2000s. With the exception of the Blue Devils (who at 14-14 are unlikely to make the tournament), all of these programs have continued to be great this season. In fact, many more of today’s top teams — such as Louisville, Mississippi State and South Carolina — all emerged from humble results during the 1980s and ‘90s.

Most sports see early champions maintain some sort of strong presence into modern times, like the New York Yankees in baseball and Boston Celtics in basketball. So it’s surprising that this many of the most dominant teams of the early women’s tourney have vanished from the competitive landscape. It’s not impossible to imagine Louisiana Tech returning to its former glory someday, but for now the Lady Techsters’ success is a memory fading quickly into ancient history.

Sara Ziegler contributed research.

from News About Sports https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/louisiana-tech-was-the-uconn-of-the-80s/

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realestate63141 · 8 years ago

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The Story Of An Art Fair Whose Work Was Never Meant To Be Sold

Marion Harris was, by her own account, a Connecticut housewife and antiques dealer when, in 1993, a hunt for old-fashioned treasures struck gold. She was scouring the Pier Show, a New York antiques fair, when she spotted an entire booth filled with with life-sized, porcelain doll parts surrounded by heaps of boxes.

“I didn’t even know what was in the boxes,” Harris told The Huffington Post in an interview. “But I knew viscerally it was something I wanted.” She bought the entire lot, all of which once belonged to a recently deceased man by the name of Morton Bartlett.

When Harris returned to Connecticut, she began to reassemble the dolls, yielding anatomically accurate figures of young girls and boys rendered in striking detail, from their tongues to their toenails. All of their clothing was handmade for a perfect fit. The boxes were also filled to the brim with photographs of dolls posed in incredibly lifelike poses, innocent yet precocious. What verisimilitude the figures lacked in the not-quite-flesh, they gained in front Bartlett’s lens.

Harris spent the next two years learning all she could about the man behind the dolls using the only clues she had: a Harvard yearbook and a Yankee Magazine that came with the dolls. She managed to piece together the story of a rather ordinary-seeming man ― an affluent, Boston-raised commercial photographer and graphic designer ― with an unusual, private pastime.

How does one go about exhibiting or selling wildly realistic, life-size dolls made by an unsuspecting, Harvard-educated hermit? Harris wasn’t so sure, until she heard about an event called the Outsider Art Fair.

The Outsider Art Fair (OAF) was founded by New York art fair magnate Sandy Smith in 1993. Smith had been in the business of launching unprecedented art fairs since he established the Fall Antiques Show in 1979. When two of his closest advisors approached him with the idea of an art show entirely comprised of self-taught work ― a genre quickly gaining momentum in the art market ― Smith decided to give it a shot. At the time, such work was commonly described as “primitive.” Smith, however, opted for different descriptor: “outsider.”

“We named it that because of that’s what Roger Cardinal called it,” Smith said in an interview with HuffPost, referring to the art historian whose book Outsider Art was published in 1972. Cardinal used the term as an English alternative to Art Brut ― a phrase coined by French artist Jean Dubuffet to mean “raw art,” art that was unmediated by education, culture, or ego. “But nobody knew what outsider art was back then,” Smith continued. “Many dealers were aghast that we called it ‘outsider.’”

The term is still contested today. The word “outsider” is meant to denote artists working not only outside the art world, but outside of mainstream culture, whether due to physical isolation, incarceration, mental illness or other singular circumstances. In such an environment, at least ideally, the creative act is untethered by artistic precedent or market trends. The outsider artist creates not for fame, or money, or glory, but for sanity, peace of mind, and survival.

Of course, the circumstances necessary for an artist to create truly “raw” work are hardly ever just right, as few are wholly isolated from social connections and cultural associations. Furthermore, many critics who oppose the term believe the “outsider” distinction can ghettoize artists who are already disenfranchised enough. It’s easy to imagine how quickly afflictions such as poverty, mental illness, and physical disabilities can be fetishized and exploited in the chase for “pure art.”

But there is something powerful humming in the broad genre of outsider art that is impossible to deny. Stripped of pretension, irony, and cleverness, the best outsider artworks use a wholly individualized visual language brewed in the imagination to probe universal, unspeakable states that hit the viewer hard.

“It has a spiritual dimension to it,” Henry Boxer, an outsider art dealer told HuffPost. “That’s what I connect with. There is a very deep space we all have; the outsiders seem to have direct contact to that.”

Boxer, who began collecting work seriously in 1975, has shown at every OAF since 1993. His first booth featured the work of Madge Gill, a mediumistic artist who began drawing obsessively after her daughter died shortly after birth in 1919. Believing that she was guided by a spirit called Myrninerest, Gill spent all hours of the night making drawings of anxiety-stricken women swallowed up by ornate fashions that spawned kaleidoscopic patterns stretching to the papers’ edges.

“I’m a child of the ‘60s, there were lots of psychedelics,” Boxer said. “We were interested in consciousness and things like that. Outsider artists are able to express these deep parts of ourselves without the use of any substances.” Gill accounted for her mystical drawings by attesting she was merely a conduit for her spirit guide. Although she produced thousands of pieces in her lifetime, Gill never sold one, believing they never really belonged to her.

Gill is far from the only outsider artist to live a lifetime of art without ever selling her work. In fact, Harris identified this condition as one of outsider art’s identifying factors. For him, it is often “art that is not made in order to be sold.” And yet, strangely, it was an art fair that introduced most of America to the genre.

The first OAF was held in January of 1993 in Manhattan’s Puck Building. (It was not yet, Smith noted, owned by the president-elect’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.) Around 25 galleries exhibited work, Smith estimated, and about 3,000 attendees showed up, far surpassing his expectations. “The press loved it,” Smith recalled, specifically mentioning a full-page spread by Roberta Smith in The New York Times.

Smith ran the fair for the next 20 years, but as time went on, he found the exhibitor booths becoming more and more difficult to fill. “Dealing in outsider art, it was a small universe to pull from,” he said. “I felt like we were getting less quality in some areas.” The market crash of 2008 didn’t help, with some of the more prominent gallerists dropping out in subsequent years.

Outsider art dealer Andrew Edlin had been keeping an eye on the fair’s recent trials. Edlin was introduced to the world of outsider art while trying to find a gallery to represent paintings made by his uncle Paul, who was deaf. “He didn’t quite have access to the contemporary art culture,” Edlin told HuffPost. He ended up finding a home for the work in the American Primitive Gallery, which exhibited at the OAF.

Edlin attended his first fair in 1995, he recalled. “I found the fair really eye-opening,” he said. “At contemporary art fairs there is always great work. But there is a little bit of this feeling, when I go to a mega-fair, that I know what to expect.” The OAF, however, was quite the opposite. Edlin remembered seeing a drawing by James Castle ― a deaf artist who used soot and saliva to chronicle the mundane details of everyday life with masterful, minimal precision ― for the very first time. “To see Castle drawing in a little booth, not even framed,” he swooned. “You can’t really replicate that feeling of excitement.”

By 2012, Edlin had an outsider art gallery of his own, and offered to help Smith “put a little shot of energy” into the fading fair. Namely, he helped recruit prominent galleries to participate and instituted thematic panel discussions to round out the event programming. “The advice that I gave him had some level of success,” Edlin said. “I thought, why don’t I buy the fair and do that for myself?”

So he did. Edlin’s company Wide Open Arts acquired the OAF that same year. For the first fair under Edlin’s purview, held in 2013, he relocated the site to Chelsea’s Dia Center for the Arts. By the end of the weekend, the fair’s attendance “just about tripled.” Edlin estimates there have been around 10,000 attendees each year in the time since.

What changed? “I think it’s fair to say that Sandy is an art fair guy, and I’m more of an art world guy,” Edlin surmised. “I saw the show not as much in terms of real estate, but as an opportunity to curate the biggest show of outsider art in the world.”

One of Edlin’s major changes was instituting a strict vetting committee, an anonymous team of dealers and curators, to review all artists submitting work to the fair. Part of the task is ensuring outsider artists are truly “outsiders” ― as Edlin said, “every once and a while we’ll do some research and the artist will have an MFA.” But then again, the delineation between the inside and the outside is blurry and controversial. “Charles Steffen was schizophrenic, but he became ill when he was in the middle of his first year of art school,” Edlin said.

The other challenge the vetting committee faced was determining the good from the bad. Because outsider art doesn’t adhere to many of the classic traditions and techniques which help critics and curators evaluate work, this was a particularly difficult task. So much of an artwork’s value, for better or worse, can become bound up with the biography of the artist. On the one hand, artist’s backstories are often dramatized to increase the mystique of their creations. More beneficially, however, the interaction between viewer and dealer can consist of genuine storytelling, empathizing, and imagination. While conversations between sellers and buyers in the larger contemporary art world can feel pretentious or just plain cold, the talks that take place at the OAF are can be like impromptu folktales.

Another crucial shift the OAF underwent during Edlin’s ownership was a matter of context. Under Smith, outsider art’s next of kin, in terms of related art movements, was folk art ― decorative or utilitarian objects made by untrained artisans as part of a communal tradition. While folk art often resembles outsider art in style, the distinction lies in the context of their creation: was the artist participating in a traditional ritual or engaged in a solitary surge of vision? With Edlin, the conversation shifted from one between outsider art and folk art to one between outsider art and contemporary art.

In part, this resulted from the success of the fair itself, which led more and more contemporary artists to familiarize themselves with outsider work, and sometimes pull from its aesthetic. For example, a 2015 group show called “Character Traits” featured a crop of young artists whose work, in some way, tapped into the outsider state of mind.

In an earlier interview with HuffPost, curator Matthew Craven explained his thoughts on why contemporary artists were so drawn to the work of outsiders. “I think what artists are typically trying to do when you see that ‘outsider aesthetic ― it’s trying to tune out everything you’ve learned before, to really approach your work in a different way,” he said. “Getting rid of things you’ve learned in the past is sometimes a bigger skill than focusing on the skills you’ve learned over time.”

Edlin is well aware of just how porous the boundary separating outsider art from contemporary art can be. Rather than overzealously guarding the partition, Edlin uses the OAF to embrace the overlap. “We look at [outsider art] as part of the greater art world and less of an island unto itself,” he said.

Much has changed since the OAF’s first edition, 25 years ago. For one, the fair is now held in Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion. But more importantly, the field of outsider art has gone from near obscurity to a genre that’s exhibited at venues from the Brooklyn Museum to the Venice Biennale. As a result, the prices of some of the artists’ works have increased dramatically. “A Henry Darger, 25 years ago, that would cost $10,000,” Edlin estimated. “Now they’re $600,000.” Still, the OAF remains one of the most affordable in terms of art fairs, with plenty of works not by Henry Darger available for under $1,000.

Another happy consequence of the fair’s growing prestige is the increase in international galleries submitting work. “It’s been easier to open up the field to new discoveries from all around the world,” OAF director Becca Hoffman told HuffPost. “With the knowledge of the fair in the furthest reaches of the world, we see new artists bringing work from Japan, Australia, Europe, and South America. The fair has really opened up those boundaries to the non-Western canon.”

Yet much has remained consistent throughout the OAF’s 25-year run, a summary of which will be featured in the curated booth “The Outsider Art Fair: 25 Years.” Curated by Edward M. Gómez, the exhibition will feature works originally shown each year of the OAF’s existence, including pieces from nine exhibitors who have been with the fair since the beginning.

For the many who treasure the spirit of the OAF, which Hoffman described as “a breath of fresh air” amongst the sea of contemporary art fairs, that too remains intact, perhaps now more than ever. “There is a warmth,” Harris said when describing the OAF’s magic. “I think it balances out the huge rise in technology, with everything a little bit sanitized now. This is real.”

Above all else, throughout its 25 years, the OAF has retained what is perhaps its signature trait: its complex and paradoxical nature. Selling work that was never meant to be sold, the fair ushered the artists and movement it represented into the public sphere. Works made in attics, hospital beds, and other private spaces are now featured in the world’s most preeminent museums. There is a magic that pulses through the fair to be sure, and a tension as well. Because, at its core, the OAF is a fair that generously and miraculously and sometimes dangerously shows work that was never meant to be shown.

The Outsider Art Fair runs from Jan. 19-22 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York.

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queer-ragnelle · 7 days ago

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Knightriders (1981) || A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)

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queer-ragnelle · 4 months ago

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I found a DVD in German. It has an English track too. Here's the eBay link -> https://www. ebay. com/itm/333278475140

Oof $13.39 shipping is a bit much but thank you I’ll keep an eye on this!

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queer-ragnelle · 2 months ago

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YES and the majority of adaptations completely fumble both these things. The Bing Crosby musical from 1949 has Hank, Sagramore, and Arthur frolicking around singing in commoner clothes for the majority of the segment. It’s got very little to do with any self reflection or compassion.

And you’re right Hank is wild and most adaptations can't handle his freak. The best ones in my opinion would be:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1970)

This animated movie is the most faithful to the book. It covers a lot of ground, stretching through the fall of Camelot which most adaptations cut out. Hank still feels like Hank, he’s an arms manufacturer, so it makes sense he has a gun (so many just give him a gun from no where?), he gets to smoke his pipe and meet a variety of knights of the Round Table. It’s so accurate, La Cote Male Taile even directs Hank to Morgan’s castle, just like the book. Clarence isn’t made annoying which is a common problem. Sandy is cute, she tells Hank stories about other knights including Palomides & Aglovale of all characters. Whoever made this loved Arthurian Legend. Good narratively, bad to look at. I think there's like 10 frames in the whole thing. Pretty uggo.

New Adventures of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1988)

This movie is insane. (affectionate) It diverges from the book significantly but it’s right in the title that it’s “new” so they’re forgiven. It’s a 2.5 hour meditation on life/death. It literally opens with Lancelot & Mordred discussing a dream they shared & then preparing to ring this bell in the Valley of Death which draws out your life force (it seems allegorical for the Holy Grail) when the “Iron Dragon” barrels towards them & Mordred flees. Lancelot ends up pulling Hank out of the wrecked plane—he’s a commercial airline pilot. He’s so deranged from moment one, crawling around on the Round Table smoking a cigarette & name dropping the knights he recognizes by their coats of arms. (Kay mention!) He’s just like me fr. But basically all the knights are wandering around a desolate wasteland looking for Eldorado. Yes really. Hank keeps returning to the “Iron Dragon” & hanging out with the skeletons of his dead coworkers & has vivid flashbacks of them all hanging out in the cockpit. He ends up winning Sandy from Sagramore & takes her with him, she’s also a freak. They have sex in a cave only for Hank to wake up in Morgana’s bed??? Insane. Apparently Hank’ll do anything a pretty lady tells him so he signs a contract with Morgana to be her king or something. She bites him & he signs in blood??? Then he wakes up again & he’s back in the cave but there’s no Sandy. Was she a tool of Morgan? Who knows! He runs into Arthur, who has taken it upon himself to dress as a commoner, & this movie takes it a step further as Arthur & Hank are sold into slavery. So they’re all in chains & Arthur refuses to get chummy with the slave driver & when Arthur starts shouting that they’re all people he gets beaten. Crazy movie. Also extreme in the religious symbolism they literally show a guy getting crucified. Hank becomes Jesus. It’s a whole thing. Anyway so once they’re back at Camelot, Morgana reveals that Hank has signed her contract & Hank sets it on fire because he’s a coward who won’t admit he messed up. Mordred ends up challenging him & they battle on top of the Round Table. Mordred wins & puts the sword point at Hank’s throat & Hank has a vision of death. So he panics & takes out a gun he had pulled from the airplane & shoots Mordred in the chest. Morgana freaks out & sobs over his body as Arthur descends his throne toward the chaos. He removes his gauntlet & throws it at Hank. Then all the knights of the Round Table throw in their gauntlets. They’re going to war against Hank for killing Mordred! So it cuts to them all in the desert wasteland, Hank is like Connecticut Rambo he has a machine gun somehow don’t worry about it. But Morgana & Arthur are in armor & embrace, they’re combining their forces to kill Hank. A huge battle ensues & Hank mows down knights with bullets. But the ending happens abruptly when Morgana sets the plane on fire & the explosion kills everyone. Hank keeps having dream visions of death (& Merlin) talking in his head so it’s all surreal at the end until Lancelot & Mordred’s conversation from the intro plays again, about the bell & how it drains your life force but they will be brave & do it. It ends on a long shot of Lancelot pulling the bell all alone as the only survivor of the story… for now. Standing ovation from me. Insanely powerful. I love when weirdo directors transform a story into something brand new. Viktor Gres I’m in your walls.

A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1995)

This movie changes a lot as well but it’s enough to be interesting. Hank is a senior in high school in a garage band who accidentally electrocutes himself with an amp. He wakes up in the outskirts of Camelot where some people are fearful of his glasses, amp, & band t shirt of “false idols.” A knight rides up & offers to take the scary guy away to King Arthur so the people don’t have to fear. As they approach Camelot, the knight reveals herself to be Sandy! Kay & Ector help her dismount, then she introduces Hank to her fiancé Galahad & his dad Lancelot. Galahad doesn’t like that Sandy wears armor but he can die mad about it because Lancelot supports her. Anyway Arthur is fascinated by Hank but both Merlin & Morgan are his advisors so they’re like “burn him.” Obviously he survives & gets to hang out. He has Clarence in this one & he’s pretty cute & interesting. So Galahad is the romantic rival & he’s kind of a dickhead but not so much so to be really awful. Hank also gives Arthur helpful marriage advice by telling him to bathe & then says the king has a secret visitor who turns out to be Lancelot it was so homoerotic? Out of no where??? Anyway Guinevere returns & is happy her man is clean now thanks Hank. Arthur & Hank (& Clarence) do go undercover in commoner clothes & I really like how it’s handled here. They encounter this woman & her daughter Linet at this cottage & basically ask if they can stay for dinner since they’re traveling. The woman says yes & as the guests are eating, Arthur notices the hosts aren’t eating, & asks Linet why, she says “Not hungry.” So the hospitality ritual of Arthuriana is utilized here to show Arthur the error of his own ways imposing on people who have so little & still find the generosity to share. Fascinating. Ultimately the resolution for the Galahad situation is that they were going to have a joust & Galahad had a special lance to joust with so Hank makes his own secret weapon which is an umbrella that electrocutes people when they open it so he gets Galahad to do that to “keep his armor dry” & electrocutes him. Galahad sees god, & fucks off to find the Holy Grail. Hilarious. Hank is so chaotic. Anyway Hank gets back to his own time & all is well.

I fear I’ve been pavloved into liking Connecticut Yankee. I’m always excited to find something “new” and there’s so many adaptations of Connecticut Yankee that my dislike has turned to like. Maybe even love in some cases. Yikes.

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fuckyeaharthuriana · 4 months ago

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My favorite arthurian movies (part 2/3)

More details (and youtube links for the less known movies) under cut. Some of these I love, some are so bad so good, some are beautifully epic, some are just funny.

New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) (youtube part 1) (youtube part 2): No idea what the characters are saying as this is in Russian, but the visual of this movie is gorgeous and so is Mordred.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989) (youtube): Lovely Connecticut Yankee movie with a girl as a protagonist. It adds some new scenes, very heart warming and cute and has a scene of Guinevere dancing.

Guinevere (1994): Loose adaptation of Persia Wolley's Guinevere books. A bit boring, but this is the first time we see Guinevere as protagonist. Focusing on her marriage with Arthur, inhereting her father's kingdom and her love for Lancelot.

A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995) (youtube) : Another Connecticut Yankee movie, the quality is not as good as others but it has an interesting Galahad (who often is not in movie) and an amazing Morgana.

First Knight (1995): Romance movie between Lancelot and Guinevere.

A Knight in Camelot (1998): The last Connecticut Yankee movies, one of the funniest ones too, with Whoopi Goldberg as the protagonist.

Quest for Camelot (1998): Only slightly arthurian, as the focus is on two new characters (one is called Gareth but has nothing to do with Sir Gareth). Set during Arthur's kingdom. Animated movie about the daughter of Lionel returning Excalibur to King Arthur.

The Excalibur Kid (1999) (youtube): One of my favorite movies and one of the only movies where Morgause is present. Focusing on a kid ending up in King Arthur's times as future king of Camelot because Morgause feels he is easier to manipulate than Arthur, the real king. I shipped him and Arthur.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2002) (youtube): Animated short movie on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, visually beautiful, following the story very loyally.

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queer-ragnelle · 6 months ago

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Hi! I’m obsessed with your passion for organizing your Arthurian media collection. This is absolutely the best resource I’ve ever seen!! I’m just getting into Arthurian media and I’ve only read a few stuff so far. Seeing the fandoms opinions for stuff at large has been super interesting. I think this is possibly the worst question I could ask, but are there any books where Arthur is the main character and he is a good person/king? I hope that this newbie question isn’t annoying but tbh I do like books about people striving to good things in the world and I know Arthur’s is a more complex character with fucked up stuff throughout the different legends but also. I’m sure at least one book he’s not killing babies or something. Sorry. For this question, I’m sure there is some sort of glaringly obvious misunderstanding on my part of the legends and also a personal character flaw of my own for slightly less complex characters who are nice but. These things happen. Idk sorry again, and thank you! I totally understand if you don’t answer this and I wish you all the best!!!!!!! <3 have a wonderful day!!!

Hello anon!

Thank you so much! I hope the collection has been helpful to you. :^) No need to apologize for anything, this is a great question. I have a bunch of suggestions. Most books are ensemble casts with many different points of view, not strictly Arthur; that's honestly rare! So I've included films and shows for you as well, some that focus on him even more. But you will find a lovely King Arthur to enjoy in them all. Have a great weekend!

Retellings

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, The Story of Launcelot and His Companions, & The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur by Howard Pyle

The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment, & The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart

Guinevere, The Chessboard Queen, & Guinevere Evermore by Sharan Newman

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck

Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger

The Winter King, Enemy of God, & Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell

Exiled From Camelot by Cherith Baldry

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

Films [Watch for free here!]

Knights of The Round Table (1953)

Sword of Lancelot (1963)

Camelot (1967)

Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)

Excalibur (1981)

Merlin and The Sword (1985)

New Adventures of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988)

A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)

Camelot (1998)

King Arthur (2004)

Arthur & Merlin (2015)

Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (2020)

Kaamelott First Installment (2021)

TV Shows [Watch for free here]

The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949)

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956-57)

Arthur of the Britons (1972-73)

BBC The Legend of King Arthur (1979)

Merlin (1998)

Kaamelott (2005-09)

Starz Camelot (2011)

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queer-ragnelle · 3 months ago

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hey question for ya-- if you were to rename mordred into something more "normie" (like how percival can become percy), what would you choose and why?

*context: i'm writing an arthur play that's messing with the lines btwn modern theatre and myth, so i'm trying to use names that are reminiscent of the characters' traditional ones but also unique to these newer characters, now*

Hey there! This sounds super cool!

Mordred doesn’t shorten as neatly as Percival does it? Haha. For me, it would depend on the tone of your project.

If Mordred is a serious character, “Mo” works. That’s what I call him for short. It’s simple and doesn’t distract too much/feel forced. Although I didn’t care for the book, The Winter Knight by Jes Battis called him Mo, which was far superior to renaming Gawain “Wayne.”

If it’s a more light hearted/satirical play, “Mordie” would be funny. Sort of in the same vein Galahad is nicknamed “Gally” in The Book of Mordred by Peter Hanratty and in A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1995).

Secret third option—renaming Mordred something completely different from his medieval name to conceal his “true” identity. If you go that route, I’d advise keeping the first letter “M” at the very least. I know Gawain’s name changes drastically between texts, but calling Mordred “Carl” or something would really kill the vibe. You could find something with the same sounds too. Morris. Mordecai. Morley. You get the idea.

Hope that helps! Just my opinion of course. Good luck with your writing! Take care. :^)

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queer-ragnelle · 4 months ago

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Content updated to HD:

Merlin's Apprentice (2006) (plus behind the scenes)

Cursed (2020) (English & other subtitles)

New stuff!!!

Lancelot du Lac (1970) (French, no subtitles)

Knights of the Round Table Anime (1979-81) (6 English episodes, 52 Japanese episodes, no subtitles)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989)

Ai no Ken No Camelot Anime (1990) (Japanese, English subtitles)

A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)

A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)

Quest For King Arthur Documentary (2004)

Perceval (2007) (Latin, no subtitles)

In the works:

Wizards Tales of Arcadia (2020) in HD

Lancelot du Lac (1970) in HD

Subtitles for anything lacking!

It's taking me a long time to download and upload so not everything is there on MEGA drive just yet. I'm in the midst of transferring now. Be sure to check back later!

list of arthurian films and shows now exists.

this is not 100% of what exists, but what i have personally seen and can discuss at length. i will update these lists as i watch more and eventually where they can be watched.

#arthurian preservation project

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fuckyeaharthuriana · 4 years ago

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Movie gifs (list)

Green Knight (2021) Kaamelott part 1 (2021) Arthur and Merlin Knights of Camelot (2020) The Kid who would be King (2019) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) King Arthur: Excalibur Rising (2017) King Arthur & the knights of the Round Table (2017) Arthur & Merlin (2015) Night at the Museum 3 (2014) Dragons of Camelot (2014) Sire Gauvaine et le Chevalier Vert (2014) Merlin’s Magic (2013) Avalon High (2010) The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010) Merlin and Arthur the Lion King (2010) Merlin and the Book of Beasts (2009) Merlin and the War of Dragons (2008) Pendragon: Sword of his Father (2008) Camelot cartoon (2008) Percival (2007) Morgana (2007) Impossible to find! Shrek the Third (2006) Tristan & Isolde (2006) King Arthur (2004) Young Arthur (2002) Not even sure it exists in complete form Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (short movie) (2002) The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2001) Mists of Avalon (2001) Merlin: The Return (2000) Tristan (1999) Arthur’s Quest (1999) Excalibur Kid (1999) Camelot (1999) - Merlin: The Quest Begins (1998) Quest for Camelot (1998) Merlin (1998) A Knight in Camelot (1998) Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997) Prince Valiant (1997) Kids of the Round Table (1997) A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1996) First Knight (1995) A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1995) The Last Enchantment (1995) Impossible to find Guinevere (1994) October 32nd (1993) Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1991) Connemara (1990) Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (1990) impossible to find A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1989) Ubit Drakona (1989) New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1988) Merlin and the Sword (1985) Morte d’Arthur (1984) Sword of the Valiant (1984) Camelot (1982) Parsifal (1982) Feuer und Schwert (1982) Lovespell (1981) Knightriders (1981) Excalibur (1981) The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1978) A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court (1978) Percival le Gallois (1978) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Lancelot du Lac (1974) Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) Tristan et Yseult (1972) Lancelot du Lac (1970) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1970) Camelot (1967) Un espanol en la corte del Rey Artur (1964) The Sword in the Stone (1963) Sword of Lancelot (1962) Prince Valiant (1954) The Black Knight (1954) The Knights of the Round Table (1953) Studio One: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1952) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1931) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1921) Tristan et Yseult (1920) These movies are probably lost Knights of the Square Table (1917) These movies are probably lost Parsifal (1912) Tristano e Isolda (1911) Tristan et Yseult (1911) These movies are probably lost Re Artù e i Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda (1910) These movies are probably lost Launcelot and Elaine (1909) These movies are probably lost Parsifal (1904) These movies are probably lost

#arthurian legends #camelot #arthurian #list #moviegifs #this is mostly for me so i remember which ones I am missing #resource

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fuckyeaharthuriana · 5 years ago

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List of Arthurian movies by Character

I made a list of arthurian movies that I know about or I have watched, divided by main characters. I've been maybe a bit generous with characters like Nimue or Bedivere, just because they are usually not in movies.

Musicals and opera stuff is also in here if there is a dvd recording of the concert/musical.

I added a * for movies that I DID NOT watch, so they are in the list because of imdb and which characters were mainly listed there, or because of the plot summary I found.

ARTHUR Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) Le Roi Arthus 1903 (2015 dvd) The Knights of the Round Table 1953 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 The Sword of Lancelot 1962 The Sword in the Stone 1963 Excalibur 1981 Camelot 1967 (and 1982) Morte d'Arthur 1984 Merlin and the Sword 1985 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1988 Guinevere 1994 First Knight 1995 Last Enchantment 1995* Quest for Camelot 1998 Excalibur Kid 1999 Merlin the Return 2000 Shrek the Third Pendragon Sword of his Father 2008 Merlin and Arthur the Lion King 2010 Avalon High 2010 Arthur and Merlin 2015 La Legende du Roi Arthur 2015 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 2017 osk revue’s knights of the round table 2019 Kaamelott 2020* soon

BEDIVERE Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 King Arthur: Excalibur Rising 2017 (first part of the movie) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 2017 Fate/Grand Order Shinsei Entaku Ryōiki Camelot* 2020 soon

DINDRANE

Dragons of Camelot 2014

ELAINE (a mix of the two) The Knights of the Round Table 1953

GALAHAD Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1995 King Arthur 2004 Percival 2007 Merlin and the Book of Beasts 2009 Dragons of Camelot 2014

GAWAIN Prince Valiant 1954 Gawain and the Green Knight 1973 Lancelot du Lac 1974 Excalibur 1981 Sword of the Valiant 1984 Merlin and the Sword 1985 Merlin the Return 2000 Green Knight 2020* soon Green Knight the movie 202?* soon Fate/Grand Order Shinsei Entaku Ryōiki Camelot* 2020 soon

GUINEVERE Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) Le Roi Arthus 1903 (2015 dvd) The Knights of the Round Table 1953 The Sword of Lancelot 1962 Lancelot du Lac 1970* Lancelot du Lac 1974 Excalibur 1981 Camelot 1967 (and 1982) Morte d'Arthur 1984 Merlin and the Sword 1985 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1988 Guinevere 1994 First Knight 1995 Merlin the Return 2000 King Arthur 2004 Merlin and Arthur the Lion King 2010 Avalon High 2010 Dragons of Camelot 2014 La Legende du Roi Arthur 2015 Queens of Avalon (musical) King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017 osk revue’s knights of the round table 2019

KAY The Sword in the Stone 1963 King Arthur: Excalibur Rising 2017 (first part of the movie)

IGRAINE Merlin and the War of Dragons 2008 Merlin and Arthur the Lion King 2010

LANCELOT Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) Le Roi Arthus 1903 (2015 dvd) Launcelot an Elaine 1909* The Knights of the Round Table 1953 The Sword of Lancelot 1962 Lancelot du Lac 1970* Lancelot du Lac 1974 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Excalibur 1981 Camelot 1967 (and 1982) Morte d'Arthur 1984 Merlin and the Sword 1985 Ubit Drakona 1989 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1988 Guinevere 1994 First Knight 1995 Lancelot Guardian of Time 1997 Merlin the Return 2000 King Arthur 2004 Avalon High 2010 Dragons of Camelot 2014 Night at the Museum 3 La Legende du Roi Arthur 2015 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017 Fate/Grand Order Shinsei Entaku Ryōiki Camelot* 2020 soon

MERLIN Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) The Sword in the Stone 1963 Excalibur 1981 Merlin and the Sword 1985 Merlin of the Crystal Cave 1991 Merlin 1993 Last Enchantment 1995* Kids of the Round Table 1995 A Knight in Camelot 1998 Quest for Camelot 1998 Merlin The Quest Begins 1998* Excalibur Kid 1999 Arthur's Quest 1999 Merlin the Return 2000 The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2001 Shrek the Third Merlin and the War of Dragons 2008 Merlin and the Book of Beasts 2009 The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010 Merlin and Arthur the Lion King 2010 Avalon High 2010 Merlin's Magic 2013 Arthur and Merlin 2015 King Arthur: Excalibur Rising 2017 The Kid who would be King 2019 osk revue’s knights of the round table 2019

MORGANA Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) A Connecticut Yankee 1931 The Knights of the Round Table 1953 Excalibur 1981 Sword of the Valiant 1984 Merlin and the Sword 1985 Новые приключения янки при дворе короля Артура. Фантазии на тему Марка Твена 1988 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1988 Guinevere 1994 A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1995 Prince Valiant 1997 Arthur's Quest 1999 The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2001 Morgana 2007* Merlin and Arthur the Lion King 2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010 Dragons of Camelot 2014 Queens of Avalon (musical) La Legende du Roi Arthur 2015 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017 King Arthur: Excalibur Rising 2017 osk revue’s knights of the round table 2019

MORGAUSE

Excalibur Kid 1999

MORDRED Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) Le Roi Arthus 1903 (2015 dvd) The Knights of the Round Table 1953 The Sword of Lancelot 1962 Lancelot du Lac 1974 Excalibur 1981 Camelot 1967 (and 1982) Morte d'Arthur 1984 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1988 Merlin the Return 2000 Percival 2007 Merlin and the Book of Beasts 2009 Merlin and Arthur the Lion King 2010 Avalon High 2010 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017 King Arthur: Excalibur Rising 2017 osk revue’s knights of the round table 2019 The Legend of Mordred 2020* soon Fate/Grand Order Shinsei Entaku Ryōiki Camelot* 2020 soon

NIMUE/VIVIAN/LADY OF THE LAKE Merlin opera 1902 (2003 dvd) Merlin and the Sword 1985 Merlin 1993 A Knight in Camelot 1998 Merlin The Quest Begins 1998* Merlin and the War of Dragons 2008 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017

PELLINORE Camelot 1967 (and 1982)

PERCIVAL Parsifal 1904* Parsifal 1912* Perceval le Gallois 1978 Excalibur 1981 Parsifal 1982 Percival 2007

RAGNELLE Merlin and the Sword 1985

TRISTAN and ISEULT Tristan et Yseult 1911* Tristano e Isolda 1911* Tristan et Yseult 1920* Tristan et Yseult 1972* Lovespell 1981* Feuer und Schwer 1982* Connemara 1990* Tristan 1999* King Arthur 2004 (only Tristan) Tristan and Isolde 2006 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2017 Fate/Grand Order Shinsei Entaku Ryōiki Camelot* 2020 soon

UTHER Excalibur 1981 Merlin of the Crystal Cave 1991 Merlin and the War of Dragons 2008

EXTRA: CONNECTICUT YANKEE A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1921* A Connecticut Yankee 1931 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1949 Studio One: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1952 Un Espanol en la corte del Rey Artur 1964 The Spaceman and King Arthur 1979 Новые приключения янки при дворе короля Артура. Фантазии на тему Марка Твена 1988 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1988 A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court 1996 A Knight in Camelot 1998

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