Why don’t movies look like this anymore?

We know why they don’t sound as good — digitalia galorica! coupled with the extreme, life-like / soul / airiness-killing negative-feedback necessary to make solid-state not runaway into oscillation — but what is it about the old film-shot look?  The birghts are sharper, the mids more intense, the darker shades richer.  It’s like everything is … Read more