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
Additional info:
2-Disc Region Free Blu-ray
2K restorations of MOVING! (1974), FREEDOM DAY PARADE (1974), TAKE ONE (1977), and ROGER (1977)
Digital transfers of HOT SHOTS (1981), SPLIT/IMAGE (1984), and THE HUSTLERS (1984)
Original 1977 theatrical cut and 2016 director's cut of TAKE ONE
Introductions and audio commentaries for MOVING! and TAKE ONE by filmmaker Wakefield Poole
Audio commentary on FREEDOM DAY PARADE by I ALWAYS SAID YES filmmaker Jim Tushinski
THE HUSTLERS research audiotape with Casey Donovan and Robert La Tourneaux
THE HUSTLERS outtakes
MORE ON MOVING! and WAKEFIELD POOLE IN SAN FRANCISCO featurettes
Trailers
Booklet with new essays by queer film historians and Cruising the Movies hosts Elizabeth Purchell and KJ Shepherd
English SDH subtitles