Bring on the Sunshine! Check out Our Films about Music!

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NEW PAY-PER-VIEW FILMS!

How it Works

We are working with small local distributors to bring you films that are pay-per-view. Fees are split between the Hyland and the distributor in an effort to help support local Independent Cinemas!

OPENING ~ Friday, June 12

Military Wives

With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.

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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties.

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Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

At 80 years old (and currently recording another album), Gordon Lightfoot continues to entertain and enlighten. Personal archive materials and studio sessions paint an intimate picture of an artist in his element, candidly revisiting his idealistic years in Yorkville’s coffeehouses, up through stadium tours and the hedonistic ’70s. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Barbra Streisand are only a handful of the stars whose recordings of “Early Morning Rain” and other hits helped Lightfoot’s artistry leap across borders, but no matter how far his music travelled, he continued to write passionately about the country he called home. As fellow music icon Burton Cummings sums it up, “Gordon’s stuff screamed Canada.” With his instantly recognizable voice and masterful guitar playing, Gordon Lightfoot remains influential and timeless.

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Sovereign Soil

At the far-flung edge of Canada’s boreal forest, outside the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, a handful of unlikely farmers are growing everything from snow-covered Brussels sprouts to apples. These modern-day agrarians have carved out small patches of fertile soil in an otherwise unforgiving expanse of isolated wilderness to make a living and a life.

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The Difference Between 35mm and 70mm Film Projection

Before 2012 all cinemas were 35mm projection and some were both 35mm and 70mm. While 35mm done right is awesome, 70mm can be even better!

70 mm film is a wide high-resolution film gauge for motion picture
photography, with a negative area nearly 3.5 times larger than the
standard 35 mm motion picture film. As used in cameras, the film is 65mm (2.6 in) wide. For projection, the original 65 mm film is printed
on 70 mm (2.8 in) film. The additional 5 mm are for four magnetic
strips holding six tracks of stereophonic sound.

Although later 70 mm prints use digital sound encoding (specifically
the DTS format), the vast majority of existing and surviving 70 mm
prints predate this technology. Each frame is five perforations tall,
with an aspect ratio of 2.2:1.

With regards to exhibition, 70 mm film was always considered a
specialty format reserved for epics and spectacle films shot on 65mm
and blockbuster films that were released both in 35 mm and as 70mm blow-ups.

While few venues were equipped to screen this special format, at the
height of its popularity most major markets and cities had a theater
that could screen it. For London Ontario the Park Theatre had world class 70mm projection and 6 channel sound. Not to mention a huge and deeply curved screen!

Some venues continue to screen 70 mm to this day or have even had 70mm projectors permanently or temporarily installed for more recent 70mm releases. The increased amount of light put through a larger aperture than for 35mm creates a superior grain free image even on the largest screens. A mid-size screen like the Hyland Cinema will have a picture that really pops! We will try to get it there.

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