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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cinema Guild has acquired “En el Septimo Dia,” Jim McKay’s acclaimed examination of the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants. The title translates to “On the Seventh Day” and is a reference to the ...
Séptimo día is a Colombian television newsmagazine broadcast by Caracol TV on Sunday evenings. It proclaims itself as "a weapon against injustice". Séptimo día first aired in 1996 on Canal Uno, when ...