PRE-ORDER: ADULTS ONLY - There Are No More Closets: The Films and Videos of Wakefield Poole, Volume 1 Blu-Ray w/ Limited Edition Slipcover (Muscle)

PRE-ORDER: ADULTS ONLY - There Are No More Closets: The Films and Videos of Wakefield Poole, Volume 1 Blu-Ray w/ Limited Edition Slipcover (Muscle)

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SUMMARY

This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on the Vinegar Syndrome website and at select indie retailers, like The Movie Room. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Muscle is a new film distribution company with a heavy repertory slant from historian, programmer, and filmmaker Elizabeth Purchell. Borne out of an understanding of the role that accessibility plays in shaping cultural histories, Muscle is dedicated to complicating and expanding the canon by shining a light on works that either never received their proper due or that have unjustly faded into obscurity, and championing new works by some of today’s most exciting underground filmmakers. Muscle loves scrappy, misfit films that don’t fit into any particular box.

There Are No More Closets is a three-volume anthology collecting the complete works of pioneering gay film and videomaker Wakefield Poole. This first volume brings together Poole’s final three feature films and first two videos.

In the wake of the disastrous release of Bible! (1973), Poole relocated from New York to San Francisco and marked the occasion with Moving! (1974), a trio of vignettes starring Casey Donovan (Boys in the Sand) and Val Martin (Sextool). Three years later, he teamed up with local experimental filmmaker Edd Dundas to make Take One (1977), an ambitious “docufantasy” about the lives and lusts of a group of real gay men, including the iconic Richard Locke (Forbidden Letters).

Poole returned to New York at the turn of the decade and reunited with Donovan once again for his final feature film, Hot Shots (1981). He made the transition to shooting on videotape in 1984 with Split/Image (1984), another trio of vignettes themed around a magazine photoshoot, and The Hustlers (1984), a narrative feature about two roommates who earn their living on their backs that began its life as a semi-autobiographical vehicle for Donovan and Robert La Tourneaux (The Boys in the Band).

directed by: Wakefield Poole
starring: Casey Donovan, Val Martin, Burt Edouards, Curt Gerard, Peter Fisk, RIchard Locke, Sal Guange, Nick Ritter, Dutch Valentino, Rudy Valentino, Glenn Robinson, Bill O'Connell, Philip Borden, Alexander Stewart, Guillermo Ricardo
1974-1984 / 382 min (combined) / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

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