Film
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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 (Friday-Sunday, noon). Series: Friday 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. Friday, 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.
GRETA AS ANNA In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Greta Garbo’s birth, Scandinavia House presents the film series Forever Garbo. Up next: Garbo plays the title role in Clarence Brown’s “Anna Karenina” (1935). The performance was Garbo’s second as Tolstoy’s tortured heroine. It earned her the New York Film Critics Circle Award for the “best feminine performance” of 1935. The screening is preceded by documentary footage from the Swedish Film Institute. One short features Garbo aboard a ship traveling to New York from Stockholm in 1929. A 1948 film test shot by Joseph Valentine for a production that was never made will also be shown. Saturday, 3 p.m., Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., between 37th and 38th streets, 212-879-9779, $8 general, $6 members.
JONES BEHIND THE CAMERA Vice President Gore serves as co-host for the New York premiere of the film “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.”The film is the directorial debut of Mr. Gore’s college roommate at Harvard, actor Tommy Lee Jones, who also stars. After the screening, Mr. Jones participates in a discussion with the chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image, David Schwartz.The film will be released widely next Wednesday. Monday, 6:30 p.m., Paris Theatre, 4 W. 58th St. at Fifth Avenue, 718-784-4520, $18 general, $12 museum members.
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