{"id":29159,"date":"2025-05-23T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=29159"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:45:30","slug":"the-cardinal-and-the-corpse-asylum","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/the-cardinal-and-the-corpse-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cardinal and the Corpse &#038; Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 1980s saw a massive resurgence in London literature. The key figure of this movement is Iain Sinclair, who through the &#8217;90s, mainly thanks to his dystopian novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Downriver<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1991) and the non-fiction tome <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lights Out<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Territory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 Excursions<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secret History<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">London<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1997), became something like a celebrity \u2013 folks listened to what he said, with many a forgotten writer owing his second life to his ever-ironic edicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sinclair and Petit were made for each other: two masters of intellectual gallivanting and meandering on an unending quest for echoes of people lost to time which they hear at the sometimes unlikeliest of places. On their short maiden walk together, the tv piece <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cardinal and the Corpse,<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comic book god Alan Moore sends them looking for a 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century grimoire, resulting in meetings with the likes of crime fiction master Robin Cook (aka Derek Raymond), gangland celebrity Tony Lambrianou, and several rare book dealers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For their longer Science Fiction documentary about culture&#8217;s end, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asylum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they surrounded themselves with ao. poet extraordinaire Edward Dorn, writer-editor-musician Michael Moorcock, and author James Sallis of more recent <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-fame. A mind-blowing double bill of intellectual ecstasy! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Olaf M\u00f6ller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FILMS<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cardinal and the Corpse (Great Britain, Canada, 1992)\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asylum (Great Britain, 2000)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1980s saw a massive resurgence in London literature.","protected":false},"featured_media":29157,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29159","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-chris-petit-en","filters-english-dialogue","filters-special-guests-films"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cardinal and the Corpse &amp; Asylum &#8212; Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/the-cardinal-and-the-corpse-asylum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Cardinal and the Corpse &amp; 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