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BLAZE (2018) 8 p.m. on Showtime. Ethan Hawke directed and co-wrote this biopic about the Texas singer-songwriter known as Blaze Foley. Before his death in 1989, Foley (whose real name was Michael Fuller) made a name for himself singing country songs and picking an acoustic guitar. He’s played here by the actor and musician Ben Dickey, who stars opposite Alia Shawkat. Shawkat plays Sybil Rosen, an actress and theater artist with whom Foley runs off to the woods, in search of romance and creative freedom outside the constraints of the music business. The guitarist Charlie Sexton also features in the cast, portraying the singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, who was a friend of Foley’s. Hawke “is clearly motivated by nothing but affection for Blaze, Townes, Sybil and the state of Texas,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. “He doesn’t so much scramble biopic conventions as allow himself and the audience to be distracted from them.”

GETAWAY (2013) 6 p.m. on HBO. For a look at Ethan Hawke involved in a movie that’s very different from — and much louder than — “Blaze,” see this straightforward action movie. Hawke plays a former professional racecar driver who speeds through the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, in a souped-up Ford Shelby GT500 after his wife (Rebecca Budig) is kidnapped.

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