Edited and color graded on digital intermediate
I think it's the principle of "you can't work with what's not there" - film (especially talking several years ago vs. today) will capture a different and usually wider dynamic range, and lend a different starting point that that might not be possible or easy to simulate.
These days it's really more of a tactile choice - 'do you want to work with film' - than aesthetic.
More on-topic, it also occurs to me that the Kodak cameras mentioned here will produce an image that the average film student or hobbyist (I guess that's the market?) with a canon or red wouldn't likely be able to reproduce convincingly, so that's interesting.
Anyway what I'd really like to see resurrected is 3-strip technicolor! That'd be retro
