There’s a sensorial argument, too, for leaving some imperfection intact. Imperfections are time’s signatures—annotations that tell you a print has been loved and watched. A noisy track can carry the ghost of a living room; a scratch can be the record of Sunday afternoons and cheap popcorn. In other words, flaws can be intimacy. When “Summer in the Country” plays in a room with the hum of an old DVD player and the occasional soft crackle, it’s not merely a movie: it’s a temporal conduit. You feel the labor of projection, the domesticity of spectatorship. That experience has its own authenticity, distinct from a laboratory-clean master.