Rose of Nevada

[MichaelB]

24 August: ROSE OF NEVADA on Blu-ray & DVD (Dual Format Edition) and MARK JENKIN – THE CORNISH TRILOGY: BAIT, ENYS MEN, ROSE OF NEVADA in a Blu-ray box set

Mark Jenkin's ROSE OF NEVADA (2025) stars George MacKay and Callum Turner as two young men who find work on a mysterious Cornish fishing boat. A blend of time travel, ghost story and social realism, all shot in Jenkin's trademark artisanal style, ROSE OF NEVADA is one of the standout British films of 2026.

Released alongside the feature is MARK JENKIN – THE CORNISH TRILOGY, a three-disc Blu-ray box set containing his 2019 BAFTA winner, BAIT, and 2022's folk horror ENYS MEN, alongside current hit ROSE OF NEVADA. The three films, all shot and set in Cornwall, demonstrate why the director has been acclaimed as one of the most distinctive cinematic talents around.

[hearthesilence]

FWIW, this just opened at Lincoln Center and IFC Center. Good word-of-mouth, I'm surprised no one has posted any thoughts about it, but then again I haven't seen it yet, so who am I to judge? (Will probably catch it when the Universal Westerns program at MoMA winds down.)

[beamish14]

FWIW, this just opened at Lincoln Center and IFC Center. Good word-of-mouth, I'm surprised no one has posted any thoughts about it, but then again I haven't seen it yet, so who am I to judge? (Will probably catch it when the Universal Westerns program at MoMA winds down.)

Jenkin has been touring with this film and just came to Los Angeles

[MichaelB]

Full specs announced:

ROSE OF NEVADA
A film by Mark Jenkin

George MacKay and Callum Turner

Released on BFI BFI-ray/DVD, BFI Player, Apple TV and Amazon Prime on 24 August 2026

Unique among British feature directors for the analogue methods with which he crafts his films, Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin is once again writer, director, director of photography, editor, sound designer and composer on this critically acclaimed follow-up to his Bafta-winning Bait (2019) and 2022’s Enys Men.

After a very successful run at UK & Irish cinemas, Rose of Nevada will be released on Blu-ray/DVD by the BFI on 24 August with extras including an audio commentary by Mark Jenkin and Mark Kermode, and a filmed Q&A with Mark Jenkin, George MacKay and Callum Turner from BFI Southbank.

When the Rose of Nevada, a fishing boat lost with all hands decades earlier, mysteriously reappears in the harbour of a faded Cornish village, it seems to be a sign. The boat, it’s decided, must be put to sea again if the fortunes of the down-at-heel community are to be revived. Young father Nick (George MacKay) and enigmatic newcomer Liam (Callum Turner) join skipper Murgey (Francis Magee) and head out on their strange voyage. But when they return, it is to a place disquietingly different from the one they left behind.

Special features
• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
• Audio commentary by director Mark Jenkin and film critic Mark Kermode (2026)
• Rose of Nevada Q&A (2026, 37 mins): director Mark Jenkin and actors George MacKay and Callum Turner discuss the making of the film in an onstage Q&A filmed at BFI Southbank
• The Jenkin Way (2025, 16 mins): behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Rose of Nevada, featuring cast and crew interviews
• Mark Jenkin in conversation with Rowan Woods (2026, 15 mins): on memory, community and the creative freedom of short filmmaking
• Selection of short films by Mark Jenkin: I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (2025, 17 mins); A Dog Called Discord (2023, 23 mins); Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape (2018, 5 mins); David Bowie is Dead (2018, 17 mins)
• Between the Tides (1958, 21 mins): a mesmerising Technicolor study of intertidal life on Britain’s rocky southwest coast, produced by British Transport Films
• Helping the Earth: Cry (1992, 1 min): a hand-painted public information film about global warming, glimpsed in Rose of Nevada
• Stills gallery
• Theatrical trailer
• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY**Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Mark Jenkin, Rafa Sales Ross, Jesse Cumming, Gwenno Saunders and Jason Wood, notes on the special features and film credits

Product details
RRP: £19.99/ Cat. no. BFIB1574 / Cert 15
UK / 2025 / colour / 114 minutes / English language with optional descriptive subtitles, plus optional audio description / original aspect ratio 1.35:1 BD50: 1080p, 24fps, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 audio // DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio

[Lowry_Sam]

Good word-of-mouth, I'm surprised no one has posted any thoughts about it,

I really hated this one. In fact I found it so unbearable to sit through that I walked out (first time in years), turns out I gave up only about 10 minutes before the end. The projectionist said 6 people left before me (in a theater of 25-30) & said I might like Bait better & that it was on Kanopy (it's not there so I couldn't). Too many shots of the actors with head askew trying to force a look of ominous forboding to let the viewer know something bad was about to happen towards the end and I found the bouncing back and forth in time to be more of a gimmick to mask a lack of substance rather than a device that enhanced the story. The acting of some of the secondary actors (particularly the opening scene) was also not very good.

Part of the problem for me was that I had just seen On The Sea a few hours earlier which I quite liked. It also dealt with 2 men at sea (North Wales vs Cornwall), but dealt with the complex issues surrounding the life (takeover by a conglomerate, isolation & toll on family life, added stress that small village life can have on family and friendships) and did it in a way that felt both honest to the subject matter and original. The film also gave a better feel for what it's like to actually work in fishing. Rose Of Nevada, on the other hand, felt like it was too caught up in its style in order to create mystery that it gave short-shrift to the actual characters, their motivations etc.