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	DVD Review - Cobra Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		"Cobra Verde" is based on Bruce Chatwin’s novel "The Viceroy of Ouida," which recounts the life of Francisco Manoel da Silva who rose from humble beginnings as a Brazilian farmer to become the master of all slave trading on Africa’s western coast during the 1750’s.
		But "Cobra Verde" is not so much about plot as it is about the rise to power of a very amoral man and the corruption of his soul that results from his misdeeds.
		Although "Cobra Verde" is the film that ultimately drove them apart, it continues to amaze me that, after all these two went through together, they remained friends right up until Kinski’s death in 1991 and produced some of the most visually-absorbing cinematic works in recent decades.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/cobra_verde.shtml (1129 words)

	Cobra Verde Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cobra Verde is adapted freely from Bruce Chatwin's novel, The Viceroy of Ouidah.
		After narrowly escaping a beheading, Cobra Verde returns to his stronghold and initiates a plot for revenge by training a group of women in the art of war.
		Cobra Verde may not be the acme of the film partnership between Herzog and Kinski, but it's still a worthwhile effort.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131406 (1018 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Cobra Verde
		But Cobra Verde is a special kind of diplomat, and before his Brazilian bosses know what's happening, he's training an army of amazons to launch a rebellion against the King.
		Herzog based Cobra Verde on the novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, by Bruce Chatwin, but as he admits early on in the disc's commentary, he changed the structure and the story to make the world of the film his own.
		The final scene, where Verde struggles with his waning strength to haul a longboat into the sea, is a miniature masterpiece of human energy and natural forces in collision.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/cobraverde.php (1222 words)

	Cobra Verde - Junk Warehouse Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After Cobra Verde impregnates all his daughters, the owner and the authorities conspire to send the bandit to Africa to reopen the slave trade.
		COBRA VERDE marked the fiinal collaboration (not counting the director's elegiac documentary MEIN LIEBSTER FEIND) between Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski.
		COBRA VERDE is one of those films I find myself rewatching in bits, if only to recapture for a moment the funereal magic of a lost world.
	www.junkwarehouse.com /amazon/asinsearch_6305972796 (373 words)

	Cobra Verde Review
		Cobra Verde marked the last of the five collaborations between German director Werner Herzog and star Klaus Kinski, and in many ways, it has the appearance of two talents going for broke, as though they somehow knew it would be their last shared hurrah.
		In the end, Cobra Verde is a lost man. The final visuals of him struggling to return his boat to the water with no avail, and eventually collapsing into the ocean as the waves ravage him, say more about the man than any ten pages of exposition.
		Cobra Verde is a powerful film that marks a fitting close to one of cinema’s most infamous partnerships.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/cobra_verde.htm (1186 words)

	Cobra Verde : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cobra Verde discovers that an attack on the fortress wiped out all but one man, a chatty free African who agrees to help da Silva negotiate with the King of Dahomey for more slaves.
		Thanks to Cobra Verde´s manic military training of thousands of African women, the prince captures the throne and allows the slave trade to continue.
		Cobra Verde is cheated again, and he dies in a futile attempt to sail a slave ship back to Brazil.
	www.pagenation.com /an/6305972796.html (1948 words)

	Cobra Verde
		But the fun is obvious, as Cobra Verde remake Pink's "Get the Party Started" and the Fall's "The Dice Man" in their own glam-devil image and play the Troggs, Undertones and Mott the Hoople songs here like they wish they'd written them.
		Cobra Verde to be a headliner at Cleveland's first ever Ingenuity Festival, 5:30 p.m.
		Cobra Verde will rock the house as the first band ever to play the new Cleveland House of Blues club, with Cheap Trick on opening night - Friday, Nov.
	www.cobraverde.com (1217 words)

	Images - Werner Herzog: Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Cobra Verde
		Cobra Verde comes to Elmina after working in Brazil for a plantation owner named Colonel Octavio Cotinho (José Lewgoy, a veteran of Brazilian television).
		In addition to his duties managing the sugar cane workers, Cobra Verde takes an interest in the Colonel's three daughters, and in relatively quick fashion impregnates them all (which is an interesting reflection on the Colonel's own habit of impregnating his mulatto slaves).
		Fully intending to send Cobra Verde to his death, the Colonel entrusts him with responsibility of going to Elmira and restoring a dormant slave trading station -- which Cobra Verde does in glorious fashion, succeeding to a far greater degree than the Colonel ever imagined possible.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/aguirre/text.htm (1630 words)

	Cobra Verde DVD REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		OBRA VERDE marked the final collaboration between the volatile Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog.
		In the scenes in Africa, where COBRA VERDE was actually shot along with South America (something that Herzog always insisted on and what made all his films at least interesting) Kinski shouts the poor Amazons into action, how to fight or hold a shield.
		COBRA VERDE is by far the best of all DVD's of the series, put on a dual layer and apparently enabling the compressionist to finally let go of the idea to simplify everything with an iron hand.
	www.dvdscan.com /cobra.htm (383 words)

	Savant Review: Aguirre, the Wrath of God * Fitzcarraldo * Cobra Verde
		Cobra Verde is the most radical of the trilogy.
		With Herzog's customary documentary eye, Cobra Verde is an absurdist adventure in a savage land, as bizarre as anything in Alice in Wonderland.
		Considering how little Cobra Verde cost (more in the ballpark of Aguirre than Fitzcarraldo), its epic scope is never less than impressive: the massed drilling of the Amazon army is frightening and funny.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s148aguirre.html (2507 words)

	GF0109 - Cobra Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Filmed in Ghana, Brazil, and Colombia, COBRA VERDE is a visually astonishing 19th-century true-life tale about a Brazilian bandit known as Cobra Verde (played by the ever-intense Klaus Kinski) who is exiled to West Africa to rejuvenate the slave trade.
		When the bandit is rescued by the kings equally crazy brother, Cobra Verde gathers a vast army of Amazon women warriors and plans to regain his dominance.
		The exquisitely photographed dusty and alien landscape of the African coast is juxtaposed evocatively with the ridiculous behavior of the slave traders as represented by Cobra Verde.
	www.slu.edu /colleges/AS/languages/video/grvideo/gf0108.html (206 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Cobra Verde
		The film ends with the spent Cobra Verde collapsing on the beach trying to pull a boat into the water to escape the madness he has helped create.
		The larger scenes in Cobra Verde are as astonishing as any big budget film: a line of thousands of Africans relaying a message from one village to another by waving white flags, a endless army of tribal woman training for battle, first as a formless mob, then with total precision.
		A few moments near the end where Cobra Verde dismisses slavery as a huge crime almost seem out of place, since he has seemed so apolitical to that point.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?id=1313 (1050 words)

	Cobra Verde: Copycat Killers - PopMatters Music Review
		Or, at the very least, Cobra Verde and Yo La Tengo are twin bands separated at birth.
		Cobra Verde has always seemed to exude that attitude of going beyond merely a cover song and needing to get a whole bunch of renditions out at once.
		Most of all, what Cobra Verde has done (besides being unafraid to take on the evil inherent in twin Yo La Tengo) is to lay out a disc that will cause any owner of it to trap people in their homes to listen to one more cover.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/cobraverde-copycat.shtml (618 words)

	News: Cobra Verde on "The O.C."
		Cobra Verde will make its prime-time network TV debut on Thursday, March 16 on Fox's "The O.C." The lovable rock iconoclasts from Cleveland will play a birthday party at The Bait Shop, the fictitious club where Adam Brody and Mischa Barton hang out in Orange County.
		Cobra Verde isn't just another band making a gratuitous cameo, though.
		Cobra Verde's version of "Waiting for a Girl Like You" will be available as a download, on iTunes.
	www.limahuli.net /revolverusa.news/archives/2006/03/cobra_verde_on.html (270 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Cobra Verde: Easy Listening
		It is possible, if you don't pay attention, to mistake Cobra Verde for a big, straightforward rock band, the kind that sells out stadiums and that, some day, may finance their retirement with a beer commercial or two.
		However, it is critical, if you want to think of Cobra Verde as a simple rock band, not to listen too hard, because the 11 songs on Easy Listening are about as subversive as they come.
		Cobra Verde turns the whole genre on its head with lyrics like "When hopes are high / I'll bring them down for you / don't worry baby / when everyone's untrue / I'll take your place and make up lies for you."
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=107338800037977 (774 words)

	DVD Times - Cobra Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cobra Verde wastes no time in raging havoc, impregnating all three of the Colonel’s daughters.
		Unexpectedly, even though he knows what they have planned, Cobra Verde agrees and is soon caught up in a revolution.
		Though there are perhaps less of them in Cobra Verde, what is there — the sight of Kinski in a frenzied state with hundreds of half-naked African female warriors must be one of them — is certainly unlike anything else you have ever seen.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=10542 (1103 words)

	Cobra Verde: Copycat Killers Aversion.com Review
		Cobra Verde packs a big, no, humongous bong load and fires it up for Pink’s “Get the Party Started” that crosses the onetime MTV favorite with Detroit-styled funk rock and a legion of marijuana references (“I’m getting high, so you’d better get the party started”).
		Thus, with heavily bloodshot eyes, Cobra Verde tries its hand at clusterfucking the canon with a slew of mix’n’match styles and songs.
		Cobra Verde’s still a rock band, first and foremost, however, and, when it’s not getting its goof on smashing up the pop lexicon, performs much better kicking up a racket and playing straightforward rock’n’roll.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=2070 (424 words)

	2:30 Publicity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The sideshows haven't kept Cobra Verde off the road, though -- or from attracting all sorts of famous fans: everyone from Josh Homme to Jim Jarmusch to the Breeders, Ashlee Simpson, Mike Watt, the Dirtbombs and J. Mascis (who's also played in and partied with the band).
		Fortunately, Cobra head John Petkovic and four of his pals -- who have been cranking out smart glosses on old forms since the mid-'90s, reaching an apex on 1999's brilliant "Nightlife" -- are convincingly good at bringing arena-size pomp to underground rock clubs.
		FHM: It's easy to understand why Cobra Verde boasts such influential fans as Queens of the Stone Age, Mike Watt and the Breeders.
	www.230publicity.com /cobraverde.html (888 words)

	Cobra Verde (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Plot Summary: The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves...
		Klaus Kinski is totally compelling in the lead role as Cobra Verde, a swashbuckling bandit-rogue who, partly through fate, partly through crooked machinations of those around him, gets sent off to a Brazilian slave fortress on the coast of West Africa to scout for slaves to bring back to Brazil.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Cobra Verde (1987)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0094888 (508 words)

	Music \| Cobra Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		There’s never been any doubt that Cobra Verde are the stage upon which John Petkovic, founder of erstwhile mid-’80s cult faves Death of Samantha, acts out his rock-and-roll fantasies, though he was kind enough to take a side role of sorts when the band served as Robert Pollard’s Mag Earwhig-era Guided by Voices.
		A master of reinvention (and currently a rock critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer), Petkovic has of late developed an abiding fondness for glam rock at its sleazy, Ziggy Stardust best.
		(Cobra Verde perform this Wednesday, May 21, at T.T. the Bear’s Place.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02890742.htm (203 words)

	Utter Trash--Cobra Verde
		Cobra Verde l to r: Ed Sotello, John Petkovic, Mark Klein (behind John) and Frank Vazzano
		Not only is Cobra Verde not immune to artifice themselves, they seem to embrace it.
		All theories and analysis aside, when it comes down to it the most important thing for John and the rest of Cobra Verde is to have fun and rock out.
	www.uttertrash.net /cobraverde.htm (1260 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Cobra Verde / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In revenge, he is sent on an impossible and deadly mission to sail to the west coast of Africa and re-open the slave trade.
		Not only does Cobra Verde succeed at this, he goes on to lead an unstoppable army of women in a savage war against the local king!
		Filmed on location with a cast of hundreds, Cobra Verde is a tale of adventure, greed and betrayal.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=18657&partner_id=29346865 (149 words)

	VH1.com : Cobra Verde : Biography
		It was during 1996 that Robert Pollard decided to split up the original lineup of Guided By Voices, and Cobra Verde approached Pollard about being their replacements.
		Pollard agreed, and the results can be heard on 1997's Mag Earwhig!, considered by many as the best GBV album since 1994's classic Bee Thousand.
		Cobra Verde is still a separate group, though, splitting their time equally between both bands, and also finding the time to release a compilation of singles and unreleased tracks entitled Egomania (Love Songs) in 1997.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/cobra_verde/bio.jhtml (317 words)

	Everything to You by Cobra Verde: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cobra Verde : Albums : Egomania (Love Songs) : Everything to You : Reviews
		Atmospheric, earthy sounds are what Cobra Verde specialize in, and they deliver the goods yet again on Egomania (Love Songs).
		It's a compilation of new songs, unreleased material, and tracks that have been previously unavailable on CD (from 45s released on the Sub Pop, Scat, Wabana, and Get Hip labels from 1995-96).
	www.mp3.com /tracks/1846379/reviews.html (142 words)

	Cobra Verde
		Werner Herzog’s last collaboration with the mad dog of movies Klaus Kinski turns about to be a surprisingly vital but rather overlooked film.
		Cobra Verde seems like another take on Aguirre Wrath of God, with Klaus Kinski again cast in conquering mold and touched by the devil.
		Cobra Verde's color is enticing with excellent saturation.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/cobra_verde.htm (375 words)

	punkrockacademy.com - Reviews > Cobra Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The members of Cobra Verde have a storied history and their cathartic music probably pleases a host of aesthetes.
		Presumably, their introspective lyrics are very significant and touch deeply buried emotions.
		Cobra Verde, despite the band history, sounds like other run-of-the-mill hard rock groups filling songs with boring clichés because they have nothing worthwhile to say.
	www.punkrockacademy.com /stm/rev/c/cobra.html (129 words)

	village voice > music > Cobra Verde; Pet Shop Boys by Scott Woods
		John Petkovic sings in multiple voices on Cobra Verde's Nightlife: punk-metal howler, psychedelic flake, Nick Cave—like Goth, wired-for-sound new waver, limp-lipped glamour boy, indie wimp.
		The most lurid parts of early Roxy, that is: the frenetic futuristic greaseballs of "Re-Make/Re-Model," "The Strand," and "Would You Believe," all as close in spirit and sound to Sha-Na-Na and Grease as they are to the Velvets and Casablanca.
		There isn't enough of this side of Petkovic on Nightlife—the final stanzas of "Crashing in a Plane," where he really does the strand-ski, is the best example—but maybe that's the point: Those moments hit hard precisely because they don't hit too often.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/9944,woods,9651,22.html (674 words)

	Cobra Verde: Nightlife
		COBRA VERDE SINGER-GUITARIST JOHN PETKOVIC HATES INDIE ROCK even more than you do, which is a bit surprising, considering that his first band, Death of Samantha, spent much of the '80s releasing albums on Gerard Cosloy's influential alterna-label Homestead.
		Yet Cobra Verde take their sound into the current century with Chas Smith's unexpected theremin-and-synth arrangements, Tom Waits sideman Ralph Carney's tar-pit-mired-mastodon sax squeals, as well as Petkovic's and Frank Vazzano's spooky electric-eel-guitar squiggles on "Conflict."
		What really separates Cobra Verde from generic rock revivalists are Petkovic's unsentimental, witty lyrics ("Even machines have bad days"), which come off like angry fortune cookies bearing brutally honest survival advice ("Kill the dream/save the dreamer").
	cobraverde.com /press/laweekly.html (630 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: COBRA VERDE
		Cobra Verde's Copycat Killers might have the answer with its twelve tunes you'd never hear on a K-Tel comp, let alone during prom night.
		Cobra Verde will charge across the U.S. in support of this opus, and have already toured relentlessly with the MC5 guys, Mike Watt, Breeders and J. Mascis-- all CV fans.
		Taking a crack at the "extreme" culture of the times, CV unload their Easy Listening, an eleven-track smash that takes four decades worth of rock music, and mashes it all up into an engaging blast of garage, glam, pop, punk, agit-prop, and bubblegum magic.
	www.midheaven.com /artists/cobra.verde.html (573 words)

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