🎬: Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) Shot entirely on location in the Amazonian jungle near Machu Picchu, this epic tale of megalomania and savage beauty inspired countless filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). Now out on 4K UHD & Blu-ray | BFI

But why? The “Nihilist Penguin” refers to a famous scene from Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World, featuring a disoriented penguin that abandons its colony and heads inland towards the mountains, away from food and safety, seemingly without purpose, leading Herzog to muse on its existential crisis and its potentially fatal, non-conformist path. The term, while catchy, sparks debate, with some seeing pure nihilism and others interpreting it as an act of existential rebe