There Are No More Closets: The Films and Videos of Wakefield Poole, Volume 2

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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 second volume brings together Poole’s softcore film BIBLE! (1974) and Jim Tushinski’s feature-length documentary I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFIELD POOLE (2010).

After the back-to-back successes of BOYS IN THE SAND (1971) and BIJOU (1972), Wakefield Poole set about making his most ambitious—and most unexpected—film yet: a lavishly-produced adaptation of the stories of Adam and Eve, David and Bathsheba, and Sampson and Delilah. Featuring a memorable comedic performance from THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES star Georgina Spelvin as Bathsheba, WAKEFIELD POOLE’S BIBLE! is a subversively erotic tribute to the women of the Good Book and to Old Hollywood silent cinema.

Made decades later, Jim Tushinski’s I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFIELD POOLE explores the many different eras of Poole’s life as a dancer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, art collector, gallery owner, pornographer, and chef. An evocative portrait of the gay liberation era, I ALWAYS SAID YES is a touching story of artistic integrity and disappointment, self-destruction, reinvention, love, sex, fortitude, and a little musical comedy.

directed by: Wakefield Poole, Jim Tushinski
starring: Georgina Spelvin, Gloria Grant, Bo White, Caprice Couselle, Nicholas Flammel, Brahm van Zetten, Wakefield Poole, Joe Gage, Marvin Shulman, Linda Williams
1974-2013 / 177 min (combined) / 1.33:1, 1.78:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

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2-disc Region Free Blu-ray
2K restorations of WAKEFIELD POOLE’S BIBLE! (1974), HOT FLASH (1975), AMERICAN VICTORIAN MUSEUM (1976), and STARS (1978)
HD presentation of I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFIELD POOLE (2010)
Introduction and audio commentary for BIBLE! by filmmaker Wakefield Poole
Interviews with BIBLE! stars Gloria Grant and Georgina Spelvin
BIBLE! screen tests and audition footage
I ALWAYS SAID YES deleted and extended scenes
BIBLE! And I ALWAYS SAID YES theatrical trailers
Booklet with new writing by queer film historian KJ Shepherd
English SDH subtitles

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