“Hitchcock/Truffaut” recalls the directors’ 1962 meeting of the minds. Michael Phelps swims a signature event, the 200-meter butterfly, at the Rio Olympics. And Michael Shannon glowers as an outlaw on the lam with an unusual child in “Midnight Special.”
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (2015) 9 p.m. on HBO, HBO Now, HBO Go and HBO On Demand. In 1962, François Truffaut, the French New Wave auteur, spent a week in Hollywood with his idol, Alfred Hitchcock, who at the time was considered little more than a master of suspense.