Blonde Cobra
Exploded View | Ken Jacobs’ Blonde Cobra
By Chuck Stephens | 01/03/2022 | CS89, Exploded View, From Cinema Scope Magazine
The secret title of this valediction is, “Watching a bootleg rip of a Blu-ray of Ken Jacobs’ 1963 Blonde Cobra with the subtitles on.” (The very prospect sounds like science fiction to these aging ears, yet here we are.) It’s a typically short scribble, a polluted dream of purity, this time about the greatest nunsploitation film of the American avant-garde, and as usual, it’ll all be over almost as soon as it begins.
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