Conclusion

Digital cinema allows for the creating of worlds, settings and characters which have no basis in the real world (Prince 1996, 30). This is the core impact of digital cinema, over the last decade more and more films have come to utilise this technology, until it has now reached a climax where it is largely no longer feasible to produce film on celluloid. This is the transition which the film industry is grappling with and trying to understand. To those film makers who learnt their craft with the old tools, they may feel that something is lost in the procedures required to use the new technologies. This fundamental feeling of loss, a yearning for times past, has been the catalyst for the production of films which comment on this subject, from a wide variety of film makers in a wide variety of styles (Gilbert  2012, 2). Midnight in Paris is just one of these and presents a coming to terms with the new paradigm, there is an understanding that the longing for the old ways is most likely emphasised by sentimentality and that the new tools must be accepted.