What’s Streaming
IMMIGRATION NATION Stream on Netflix. Leaders of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency granted behind-the-scenes access to Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz to film this documentary series in 2017. But the filmmakers claim that when the project was nearly completed, government officials fought to censor it and delay its release. (Jenny L. Burke, the ICE press secretary, has disputed the accuracy of these statements.) Now viewers can see for themselves, in the six-part series that offers a candid look at the agency’s operations and tells the stories of some of the immigrants involved. “Part of what makes the film unique is that the creators were allowed not only to enter certain detention facilities but to interview people inside and then follow their cases through the labyrinthine immigration system,” The New York Times reported.
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD (2019) Stream on Hulu. This live-action adaptation of the Nick Jr. television series “Dora the Explorer” imagines what the adventurer’s life would be like after childhood. The movie begins with 16-year-old Dora (Isabela Moner) adjusting to life with relatives in the suburbs while her parents are working abroad. “There, her unique background, relentless cheer and wide-eyed inquisitiveness prompt strange looks,” Bilge Ebiri wrote in his review for The Times. Eventually, adventure finds Dora — she and three other students are kidnapped by villainous treasure hunters who are searching for her parents — and she is able to prove herself to her new friends. “Even as it strikes a gently irreverent tone, the film also embodies its heroine’s positive energy,” Ebiri wrote.
IMAGINE THE SOUND (1981) Stream on the Criterion Channel, Amazon and Kanopy; rent on iTunes. When free jazz arose as an identifiable genre in the late 1950s, it was subjected to many of the criticisms that avant-garde movements tend to face. Some claimed its practitioners lacked technical skills, while others argued it broke too radically with jazz norms to count as a legitimate offshoot. This documentary by Ron Mann tries to gently set the record straight. Lovingly filmed performances by Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon and Paul Bley make the case for the aesthetic quality of their creative output, and interviews with these figures demonstrate that there was a deep intellectual and spiritual foundation to their music.
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MONTREAL CANADIENS VS. PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 8 p.m. on NBCSN. Hockey is back and the playoffs are underway. But because of the coronavirus, this year’s postseason is structured differently than in years past. The Montreal Canadiens and the Pittsburgh Penguins, Eastern Conference rivals, are two of the teams fighting it out to qualify for the first official round. This is the second game of a best-of-five series. During the regular season, which was interrupted in March, the Penguins won two of their three matchups against the Canadiens.
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