Pelé
Soccer has never known another star to match
Pelé. A member of Brazil’s national team from
age 17, he played as though the ball answered his
every thought while leading Brazil to three World
Cups across a tumultuous period in the nation’s
history. In this powerful documentary, the
80-year-old legend revisits his career, addressing
difficult questions about whether he should have
done more to resist the rise of a brutal Brazilian
dictatorship. Available for streaming Tuesday,
Feb. 23, Netflix
Superman & Lois
Not even Superman finds it easy to be a super
dad. Tyler Hoechlin, who has played the Man of
Steel in several Supergirl episodes, now assumes
the role for a series in which he returns in his
Clark Kent guise to Smallville, the Kansas town
where he was raised. He and wife Lois Lane,
played again by Elizabeth Tulloch, are seeking a
more stable family life while their children are still
teenagers. And they still don’t know that Dad’s a
superhero. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m., the CW
Ginny & Georgia
The latest series to try to recapture the spe-
cial magic of Gilmore Girls makes the sober
teen daughter biracial and her young mom
far more of a handful. Brianne Howey plays
Georgia, a flirty blond Southerner who’s running
from the law when she moves Ginny and her
younger brother to a small New England town.
Newcomer Antonia Gentry co-stars. Available
for streaming Wednesday, Feb. 24, Netflix
Allen v. Farrow
Almost three decades after Woody Allen was
accused of sexually abusing his adopted 7-year-
old daughter, this four-part documentary series
argues that Allen, who denies the allegation, has
largely controlled the story that has nevertheless
clouded his career ever since. Filmmakers Amy
Ziering and Kirby Dick won interviews with
Allen’s then partner, Mia Farrow, and Farrow’s
daughter, Dylan, who has shared video clips
of herself at 7 describing the event. The series,
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Kusama: Infinity
Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity
Rooms” have been a recent
art-world phenomenon,
drawing huge lines in cit-
ies around the world. This
portrait affirms the queen
of polka dots as one of the
most significant artists of
our time, a Warhol since
before Warhol. Hulu
Jean-Michel Basquiat:
The Radiant Child
No other film about painting’s
1980s shooting star has got-
ten as close to the young
man himself as this docu-
mentary by Tamra Davis,
a friend. The Radiant Child
captures the whole scene—
and features Basquiat in a
candid 1985 interview.
Amazon Prime
Gerhard Richter: Painting
One of the world’s greatest
living painters let filmmaker
Corinna Belz watch him
work, and the patient, quiet
documentary she created
makes the process thrilling
even as the decisions that
Richter makes from moment
to moment remain hard to
put into words. Kanopy.com
Sky Ladder: The Art of
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang
has expanded the possi-
bilities for contemporary art
with his spectacular large-
scale pyrotechnic displays.
This documentary surveys
the highlights while watch-
ing him pursue a towering
vision that took 20 years to
realize. Netflix
The Woodmans
In this moving documentary,
two committed artists recall
raising a daughter, Francesca,
who, when she took her
own life at 22, had already
produced an enduring body
of work in photography.
Kanopy.com
Mapplethorpe: Look at
the Pictures
The stir that Mapplethorpe’s
homoerotic photographs
created in the 1980s becomes
a springboard for a thought-
ful examination of the artist’s
work and career. HuluStreaming tips
To this day, Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” can
stop any listener cold. In this new biopic from
director Lee Daniels, singer Andra Day chan-
nels Holiday to help tell the little-known story of
how the jazz legend was taken down by federal
narcotics agents because she wouldn’t stop
performing the haunting ballad about Southern
lynchings. A heroin habit made her vulnerable,
as did a romance with an uncover agent. Day’s
first screen turn has earned her a Golden Globe
nomination. The screenplay comes from Daniels
and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Available for
streaming Friday, Feb. 26, HuluShow of the week
Day: A force, not just a voiceThe United States vs. Billie Holidayeach week. Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m., HBO
2021 Golden Globe Awards
Awards season finally kicks off, with a Globes
ceremony split between coasts, Tina Fey
emceeing at New York City’s Rainbow Room
and Amy Poehler presiding at the Beverly
Hills Hilton. Expect a big night for the film
Nomadland and many mentions of Michaela
Coel’s I May Destroy You, the critically
acclaimed TV series that somehow scored no
nominations. Sunday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m., NBC
Other highlights
Beartown
In a five-part drama based on a best-seller, a
Swedish town is torn apart when the star of its
celebrated junior hockey team is accused of rape.
With subtitles. Available for streaming Monday,
Feb. 22, HBO Max
Punky Brewster
Soleil Moon Frye reprises her 1980s sitcom role,
now as a single mom who takes in a plucky fos-
ter child despite already having a crowded house.
Available for streaming Thursday, Feb. 25,
Peacock
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
A documentary pulls back the curtain on Billie
Eilish as she works to reconcile pop stardom
with just being a teenager. Available for stream-
ing Friday, Feb. 26, Apple TV+- All listings are Eastern Time.
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