You don't get filmmakers like Mizoguchi anymore, but that's because of the fall of the studio system. Mizoguchi couldn't remember how many films he made, nowdays a director will be lucky to make 15 films in his career. People don't get the apprenticeships that they had in the old days. The exceptions are directors of rare talent. What makes up for that is diversity -- films from South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, The Phillipines -- that was unimaginable in Mizoguchi's day. If that's the trade-off, I can live with it. There's no shortage of talented people in the world, what's important is access to the technology. So long as people are making films, cinema is still alive. Unfortunately, it's expensive. I also think it takes time to appreciate what we have, people won't gain perspective on 90s filmmaking for awhile. It's much easier to be impressed by cinema from 50 years ago than the recent past, but 90s cinema was incredibly prosperous, eventually its best will be considered all-time classics.  