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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"You're in a very tough situation, José." Cinema Guild has debuted an official trailer for an indie drama film titled En El Séptimo Día, which translates to On the Seventh Day. The latest film by Jim ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim McKay used to walk into video stores back in the 1990s, where he'd see versions of himself: white males, in all kinds of movies. Then he tried to imagine being someone else. "You'd go in these ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. LALIFF, formerly the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, returns this year ...

The most satisfying aspect of “En El Séptimo Dia” (“On the Seventh Day”), Jim McKay’s first feature in 12 years, stems from the way it combines a simple premise with profound concerns. Set across one ...