The 2006 George Clooney film "The Good German" took great pains to shot the movie as "1940's style" as possible.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452624/trivia?ref_=tt_ft
The Steve Martin comedy "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is another good example. They had to carefully match up sets and the lighting of many a classic film noir, for it to appear Martin's character was in the same scenes with the likes of Bogart. (No Forrest Gump level CGI in 1982.) They were fortunate some of the guys who actually lit those films were still around.
It's probably not impossible to use old lenses with a digital camera. HD video would have manipulated to resemble the film stocks of a certain era.
On the flip side of the same coin, I've seen music videos shot with ancient broadcast gear to get that vintage tv look.