One obvious area where film has digital photography beat is in scaling. This works in more than one way. If you need to shoot a lot of pictures (big wedding, vacation, whatever) you just buy lots of film. 40 rolls of film cost just 40 times more than 1 roll, or probably less. If you want to shoot lots of digital pictures you'll need to start off-loading them from the camera, and this means dragging a laptop and a pack of CDR drives or something to pile all the stuff onto, or buying lots of expensive PC cards and downloading pictures after the fact. Anyway you do it, it's a hassle and probably a lot of weight to lug around. Your 40 packs of film probably weigh 1/10 what you're facing with digital photography.

Also, film scales better in the resolution sense. If 35mm resolution doesn't cut it you have lots of options. The best pro market digital cameras still have a long way to go before they'll match big view cameras (8"x10" or bigger sheets of film).