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Tribute to Peter Howden

webadmin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:03:03 +0000

RIP Peter Howden This tribute was posted on Facebook on 19th January 2026 by Michael Brooke who worked with Peter at the Everyman from 1989 to 1995 Peter Howden (1945-2026) was about as far from a household name as it’s possible to imagine (a situation that I imagine suited him right down to the ground), […]

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London repertory cinemas, a memoir of sorts: David Flusfeder

webadmin — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:48:05 +0000

Posted February 2026 First published in the New Statesman November 2011. Davis Flusfeder is an author, scriptwriter and journalist, as well as Director of Creative Writing at the University of Kent. He worked part time at the Everyman in the mid 1980s, starting as an usher and ticket seller and graduating to assistant projectionist. In […]

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Sarah Bloomfield, an important character in the Everyman story: Charles Drazin

webadmin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:15:28 +0000

Posted January 2025 This blogpost by Charles Drazin, film historian, author and editor, is about his friend Sarah Bloomfield who worked as an usherette at the Everyman from 1958 until the early 1980s. A talented artist, she was very much part of bohemian cultured Hampstead where her intellectual parents presided over ‘an extraordinary salon of […]

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My Accidental Film Education and the Everyman Refugee Connection: Simon James

webadmin — Fri, 03 May 2024 10:40:35 +0000

Posted May 2024 Simon James was brought up in Hampstead and read Philosophy at Sheffield University, where he helped the University cinema. He now lives near Swansea and has a passion for writing. You could say that my education in film and world cinema started quite by accident. This is the story of that happy […]

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Roy Stafford and Ray Bignell: The Everyman and repertory cinema

webadmin — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:13:57 +0000

Posted March 2022. These cinephile friends kept a record of the films they saw at the Everyman In the early 1970s, despite the closures of many local cinemas in London, there was still a wide choice of cinemas showing a variety of programmes. As well as the circuit cinemas (ABC/Odeon/ Classic etc.) there was a […]

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Kevin Brownlow remembers the influence of the Everyman

webadmin — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:00:41 +0000

Posted by Kevin Brownlow January 2022 Eminent film maker and historian Kevin Brownlow has worked in film from the mid 1950s. His memories, from inside the world of film making, evoke the power of the cinematic image and the importance of the Everyman as ‘a course in cinema history’. The Everyman is probably […]

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Adrian Turner’s Everyman Memories

webadmin — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:06:48 +0000

Posted by Adrian Turner, January 2022 The Everyman was like a University to me. I had left school at 16 and had done a variety of boring jobs, starting off by working in an amazing building, the Royal Exchange in the City of London. My Dad worked there so he fixed a job for me […]

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‘Something worthwhile’: Peter Howden at the Everyman in the 1980s and 1990s

webadmin — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:10:40 +0000

Margaret O’Brien posted December 2021 This blog is based on a most enjoyable conversation with Peter Howden in the bar of the National Film Theatre (now called BFI South Bank), in November 2021. We talked about his time as manager and programmer of the Everyman, a position which lasted from 1981 to 1998. I first […]

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