Pradip Krishen’s In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989, 114 minutes) screens at NYFF on Friday, October 2 at 4:15 p.m. The new 4K restoration used the surviving 16mm camera and sound negatives plus a 35mm print. Arundhati Roy wrote her first screenplay at 28 and plays Radha, while the film follows an architecture student trapped in a cycle of failing and repeating his studies in 1970s New Delhi. What begins as student comedy widens into an argument about institutions, urbanism and the distance between idealism and professional power.
Its combination is particularly appealing: architecture, bureaucracy, youthful scheming and a restoration whose source materials are part of the story. Film at Lincoln Center’s current festival index places the film among screenings with available or limited tickets, but the individual page did not expose a selectable seat offer in this check. Verify the 4:15 Walter Reade screening before making the trip. Film at Lincoln Center