35mm film is not dead, despite what you may have heard. It has high-profile supporters including Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan. For it to survive, however, there must be an infrastructure to support it and people who know how to deal with the medium. In the digital era, projectionists are a dying breed and physical copies of films are becoming scarce. But there are rays of hope.
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