LENNON’S WAR Richard Lester’s “How I Won the War” (1967), which features John Lennon in his only starring role in a non-Beatles film, is screened to mark the 25th anniversary of Lennon’s death in New York. The anti-war comedy follows a World War II platoon sent behind enemy lines to arrange a cricket pitch. Today, 4:30, 6:50, and 9:15 p.m., BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, $10 general, $7 seniors, students, and children under 12, $6 members.

FASSBINDER SERIES An 11-weekend series of screenings of films by the prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder kicks off tomorrow. Up first is “Beware of a Holy Whore” (1971), a dark tale of a film crew stranded in a seaside hotel waiting for extra funds to continue filming (tomorrow, noon). Series: Tomor row through February 26, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at West 3rd Street, 212 924-7771, $10.75 general, $7 seniors.

SPAIN ON SCREEN The series “Spanish Cinema Now” opens with a screening of Montxo Armendariz’s new film “Obaba.” The film is Spain’s official nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. It follows a university student studying the inhabitants of a Basque town. Tomorrow, 2 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, 3:30 p.m., Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-496-3809, $10 general, $7 students, $6 members, $5 senior Monday-Friday before 6 p.m. and children ages 6 to 12.

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