Marjorie Yates
Series
Criterion collection volume 1992
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of eleven-year-old Bud, a sad and lonely boy who struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school.
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"The Optimists tells the story of Sam, a street performer with a unique outlook on life. Sam befriends two children who have led hard-knock lives and teaches them to look at life from a new perspective. The novelty of having a song and dance man as a friend soon turns into something much deeper, as Sam realizes that the children have just as much to teach him about life"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Rome is a city divided, nobility and common-people locked in mutual suspicion. The patrician Caius Marcius, later called Coriolanus, is Rome's greatest soldier, but his proud refusal to accommodate himself to the demands of the plebians leads to banishment and death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 694
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Bud is a shy, dreamy boy who is adored by his close-knit family but tormented by his stronger schoolmates. It is only in the darkness of the neighborhood movie theatre that Bud feels free, escaping his drab life in the romantic, innocent films of the 1950s.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of a street performer named Sam, who with a unique outlook on life befriends two children and teaches them to look at life from a new perspective. The novelty of having a song and dance man as a friend soon turns into something much deeper, as Sam realizes that the children have just as much to teach him about life as he does them.