The story of a Mexican immigrant in Brooklyn is both a classically neorealist fable and a galvanizing sports movie. The most satisfying aspect of “En El Séptimo Dia” (“On the Seventh Day”), Jim ...
Writer-director Jim McKay has a way of making the everyday seem exceptional, of seeing the absorbing drama in what can sound like ordinary lives. “En el Séptimo Día” (On the Seventh Day) is McKay’s ...
Writer-director Jim McKay has a way of making the everyday seem exceptional, of seeing the absorbing drama in what can sound like ordinary lives. “En el Séptimo Día” (On the Seventh Day) is McKay’s ...
The sound of writer-director Jim McKay’s En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) is the languid buzz of a summer Sunday afternoon in Sunset Park around the artificial-turf soccer field, a bright green ...
Fernando Cardona in "En El Séptimo Día." (Courtesy Cinema Guild) The title of writer-director Jim McKay’s "En El Séptimo Día" translates to “On The Seventh Day,” which was once biblically considered a ...
Exclusive: McKay's first feature film in over a decade was shot in the neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Park Slope, and Gowanus. Jim McKay‘s first feature film in over a decade takes a slice of life ...
Discussing the ways in which fiction films shift between their linear, wholly narrative impulses and something approaching ethnography is among the most illuminating aspects of movies so deeply tied ...
Jim McKay, director of “Girls Town” (1996), “Our Song” (2000) and “Everyday People” (2004), returns to indie filmmaking after a successful run directing big shows on cable television and network TV ...
On the seventh day of creation, the Bible says, God rested. On the seventh day of his own week, En el Séptimo Día’s José dedicates his free time to his two faiths — the church and soccer. Not only ...
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Jim McKay, the stalwart indie director of 'Girls Town' and 'Our Song,' returns to the big screen after 13 years with the exquisitely crafted tale of a Mexican-immigrant delivery guy in Brooklyn.