From the author of The Exorcist comes one cinema&s most unique & extraordinary films now hailed as a cult classic Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded Gothic castle housing a military asylum With a reserved calm he indulges the inmates& delusions allowing them free rein to express their fantasies But some are wary of the newcomer & his methods There may be more to Kane than meets the eye & the insanity escalates towards an explosive revelation Bonus Features- English Subtitles for The Hard of Hearing- Audio Commentary by Writer Director William Peter Blatty- & The Writer Producer Director&
- Interview With William Peter Blatty- & Confessions of Kane&
- Interview With Actor Stacy Keach
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- Interview With Actor Stephen Powers- & Designing The Configuration& Interviews With Production Designer William Malley & Art Director J Dennis Washington- & Killer On My Mind&
- Interview With Soundtrack Composer Barry De Vorzon- & The Party Behind The Curtain&
- Interviews With Actors Tom Atkins Jason Miller Richard Lynch & William Peter Blatty- Mark Kermode Introduction Featurette- Deleted Scenes & Outtakes Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play





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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Deep in a forest of pine trees near the coast of Washington State lies a grotesque Gothic mansion commandeered by the Pentagon for use as a special psychiatric hospital for the military Those elite personnel who know of its existence & the nature of Project Freud refer to it as Centre Eighteen Confined to the centre are high-ranking military officers who are undergoing treatment for mental breakdowns which are unaccountable by their service experiences Determined to establish the true nature & origin of the men&s mental illness the Pentagon enlist the services of Colonel Hudson Kane a brilliant yet strangely unorthodox psychiatrist Kane s unusual approach helps him to withstand the tests that a wildly eccentric fringe inflicts on all the new medical officers Typical of their number is Captain Cutshaw an astronaut who aborted a space probe He is convinced that God is a fraud & that the man in the moon tried to take advantage of his sister His fellow inmates are similarly consumed with inner torments they fear the evil within themselves & are afraid that within a Godless universe man is alone in leading a purposeless existence Slowly through the love he possesses for his fellow man Colonel Kane is able to break down the lunatic façade of the inmates & of Captain Cutshaw in particular but as he leads the way back to a world of reality the dividing line between sanity & madness assumes an increasingly vague definition so much so that Kane s colleagues pose the question of who is the therapist to whom with real urgency The Ninth Configuration is a taut & gripping tale which mixes theology & psychology in a search for God & the answer to the mystery of Kane s true identity It is a film that director producer & writer William Peter Blatty had wanted to make for a long time Based on one of Blatty s earlier novels entitled & Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane& the film had been in the planning for a number of years &I d wanted to do this film for quite a while& noted the creator of The Exorcist &I always knew that eventually I would get it made It is a very special story I m happy that I never gave up& ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Every book has a life of its own Johnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski&s newest thriller Depp stars as Dean Corso an unscrupulous rare book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of The Nine Gates a demonic manuscript that can summon the Devil Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder theft & satanic ritual & ultimately finds himself confronting the devil incarnate Actors Johnny Depp Frank Langella Lena Olin Emmanuelle Seigner Barbara Jefford Directors Roman Polanski Writers Roman Polanski Arturo Perez-Reverte Enrique Urbizu John Brownjohn Producers Adam Kempton Alain Vannier Antonio Cardenal Language English Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

TWO COUNTRIES IN THE GRIP OF WINTER As Stockholm freezes over Sweden's Minister for Justice disappears That same night a Danish celebrity is hunted in her snow-bound home TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS Police in Stockholm & Copenhagen are closing in on their suspects a surgeon who dissects his victims & a brutal predator who targets women But as winter darkens their investigations begin to unravel SOMETIMES MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING ...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JAMIE DORNAN & AARON PAULNine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child bright precocious deceitful
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' The best new writer of fiction in America The best' John Irving Meet Samuel stalled writer bored teacher at a local college obsessive player of online video games He hasn't seen his mother Faye in decades not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy Now she has suddenly reappeared having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news beguiles the Internet & inflames a divided America The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past but as far as Samuel knows his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain she's facing some serious charges & she needs Samuel's help As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's
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- history the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s to New York City during Occupy Wall Street back to Chicago in 1968 & finally to wartime Norway home of the mysterious Nix Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother
- a woman with an epic story of her own a story she has kept hidden from the world


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' The best new writer of fiction in America The best'
- John Irving Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural
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When the Harvard Business Review asked Robert Sutton for suggestions for its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas he told them that the best business practice he knew of was 'the no asshole rule' Sutton's piece became one of the most popular articles ever to appear in the HBR Spurred on by the fear & despair that people expressed the tricks they used to survive with dignity in asshole-infested places the revenge stories that made him laugh out loud & the other small wins that they celebrated against mean-spirited people Sutton was persuaded to write THE NO ASSHOLE RULEHe believes passionately that civilised workplaces are not a naive dream that they do exist do bolster performance & that widespread contempt can be erased & replaced with mutual respect when a team or organisation is managed right There is a huge temptation by executives & those in positions of authority to overlook this trait especially when exhibited by so-called producers but Sutton shows how overall productivity suffers when the workplace is subjected to this kind of stress ...

Personal finance journalist Michelle Mc Gagh takes on a challenge to not spend money for a whole year in an engaging narrative that combines personal experience with accessible advice on money so you can learn to spend less & live more Michelle Mc Gagh has been writing about money for over a decade but she was spending with abandon & ignoring bank statements Just because she wasn't in serious debt apart from her massive London mortgage she thought she was in control She wasn't Michelle's took a radical approach & set herself a challenge to not spend anything for an entire year She paid her bills & she has a minimal budget for her weekly groceries but otherwise Michelle spent no money at all She found creative ways to live have a social life & to travel for free She has saved money but more importantly she is happier Her relationship with money with things with time with others has changed for the better The No Spend Year is Michelle's honestly written & personal account of her challenge But it is more than that it is also a tool for life There are top tips for your own finances including easy to understand advice on interest mortgages savings pensions & spending less to help you live a more financially secure life ...

Be it for breakfast lunch or dinner this book will show you how to cook in a totally new way Discover 100 easy innovative inspiring recipes that don't involve conventional oven cooking
- instead you'll find a wealth of clever shortcuts & simple alternative techniques for transforming fresh ingredients into vibrant & nutritious meals The no-cook philosophy is about far more than just assembly You'll be surprised & delighted at the variety of gorgeous food you can magic up without even turning on the oven including dips soups noodles & slaws cheats' pizzas & pasta dishes simple sushi & ceviche no-cook interpretations of familiar kitchen classics & foolproof no-bake desserts Many of these recipes are naturally much healthier than their oven-cooked counterparts since there's no frying in oil or basting in butter but instead plenty of fresh ingredients simply prepared & assembled & in some cases kept raw thereby retaining their natural nutrients & antioxidants Not forgetting that a no-cook approach helps keep your kitchen cooler & your energy bills that little bit smaller So whether you're a curious cook in search of new ideas a kitchen novice with a fear of the oven or a busy parent seeking weeknight-ready meals these smart delicious no-cook recipes are the answer you've been waiting for
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