The Hyland Cinema is out to prove that older might just be better.

London’s historic arthouse cinema at 240 Wharncliffe Rd. S. will be the lone Ontario movie theatre west of Toronto using a 70 millimetre film projector – one believed to have been built in the late 1960s, and now ready after several years restoring it.

“I think it’s going to be pretty exciting when we get our first print in it,” owner Moira Adlan said, noting the addition makes sense given the success of 70-mm screenings of the movie Oppenheimer in 2023.

“I think it’s going to have a great response here in London. There’s a lot of people who are real, diehard cinema lovers in London.”

But why make an investment in older technology? And why 70 mm? For Victor Liorentas, the cinema’s longtime projectionist, the answer

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