I haven't seen a 35mm film in a theatre for ages. I can't remember what they were even like. The current crop of digital projections I've gone to don't look impressively sharp and the blacks are not rich and deep at all. I do remember the old time BW films. Jesus they had magnificent blacks.
Would you say current digital projection = good 35mm film projection? (OK film has grain, but we don't need to get into that. Just stick to sharpness and blacks.)
Now with still photography 35mm digital far surpasses 35mm film in sharpness. But I don't see the same sharpness benefit on digital movies when they are on the big screen. Maybe I'm sitting too close to the screen? (Front 1/3 of theatre.)