PARKWAY is one of the few remaining cinemas in the country that can screen 70mm high definition film.

These days cinemas use digital projectors which require very little caretaking, it's a case of simply flicking a switch and it rolls. Technology has advanced so much that Parkway can operate its two screens from a mobile phone app.

But Parkway boss Rob Younger says there is a revival among film makers to shoot on real film - with 70mm enjoying a resurgence. The high-resolution format of celluloid film was for decades was how most movies were projected in cinemas.

The quality is higher - but costly - and in its heyday it was reserved for epics like Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Modern directors are now favouring film saying it gives more depth and richness to their movies. Rob is the only person at Parkway, and in fact one of the few projectionists left in the country, who has the technical know-how to screen 70mm.

Last year he jumped at the opportunity to show Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and is screening Christopher Nolan's Interstellar in 70mm this week - the only copy in the country.

As soon as he can lay his hands on one of the five prints of Nolan's new film Dunkirk in the format, he will be showing that too and is hoping to have it in time for the cinema's tenth anniversary celebrations next month.

"In 2006, just before I opened Parkway, I was installing the first wave of digital projectors to go in cinemas and there is virtually no film left now.

"It's nice to go back to film, I love it. The projectors are my babies. You can't buy them now, there aren't any left. When cinemas were switching to digital they were literally throwing these in skips.

"They're amazing. You can keep bolting bits on to keep up with technology whereas the digital projector we have could be obsolete in ten years."