Timeline Stories Archive - The History of The Everyman Cinema Hampstead

1993

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June Carroll, ex Olympic champion, now in the catering business, bought the cinema.

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1981

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Peter Howden from the Electric Notting Hill, was appointed. His programmes of daily changing double and triple bills were to become legendary.

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2008

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Broch resigned. The cinema is run by the Everyman Cinema Group.

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2007

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A refurbishment updated the lounge, removed the bookshop and moved a bar into the space.

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2004

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A second screen was opened in the basement

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1986

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A café was opened in the basement

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1943

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The cinema was sub-let to Vincent Beecham, an early cinema proprietor. The twice-weekly programmes of mainly British and American revivals did well, but the Everyman was returned to Fairfax-Jones in early 1946.

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2000

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The Everyman was bought by a young property entrepreneur, Daniel Broch, and the cinema became the first of Everyman Cinema Group which now runs 45 ‘boutique’ or ‘lifestyle’ cinemas, a successful business model in tune with new cinema going habits.

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1999

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After continued heavy losses Pullman put the cinema on the market.

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1998

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Pullman Cinemas, a small chain, took over the Everyman and invested £800,000 in its refurbishment. The café was removed and a bookshop installed. Meanwhile, Peter Howden left.

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1995

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‘Forget petty distinctions between highbrow, lowbrow, age, language or origin – in the great tradition of sixty years of the Everyman’, was the message in the Summer programme of ‘the oldest repertory cinema in the world’. 175 daily changing double and triple bills were advertised, included Tarkovsky alongside Russ Meyer and Martin Scorsese, and Jazz […]

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1984

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Grants from the London County Council and Channel 4 enabled the refurbishment of the Everyman. These were difficult times for cinemas, especially the independents. Cinema attendances nationally were at an all-time low and video was taking off, ultimately reducing the appeal of the Everyman revivals.

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1973

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The death of Fairfax Jones in April marked the end of an era. Control of the Everyman passed to the family trust. Adrian Turner, who had been assistant manager was made programming manager. He ended the traditional seven day runs and introduced a more varied programme including Film Noir and Hollywood musicals.

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1964

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Another look at Bergman, the fourth season of this seminal director, became a regular feature, culminating in a seventeen-film tribute in 1977. During the 1960s, with the flowering of auteur cinema, the Everyman was in the forefront of promoting world cinema with the works of directors like Satyajit Ray, Godard and Antonioni.

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1954

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The Everyman celebrated its twenty first birthday with a booklet looking back at its significant films and art displays as well publishing appreciations from film makers and critics. But the cinema was also looking forwards: the new wide screen projection cinemascope was installed, and a refurbished foyer gallery was opened.

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1946

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The Fairfax Joneses re-opened the Everyman in February. At first prewar favourites, including Mädchen in Uniform, and the Paula Wessely films, were shown. When films were imported again from abroad, Everyman audiences were introduced to more recent productïons like Renoir’s The Southerner and Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible. But it was Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane which […]

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1940

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The cinema survived the first months of the War, using the basement as an air raid shelter which, according to the publicity, could hold the entire audience and was the best for miles around. Blackouts, bombs and lack of films forced the cinema to close in September 1940.

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1936

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The first Marx Brothers Season. It was so successful that it was repeated in 1937, 1938 and 1939, and regularly after the War, for many decades to come. Seasons of directors and stars – of René Clair, Paula Wessely, Alfred Hitchcock and others – were pioneered by the Everyman and became a distinctive part of […]

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1934

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The beginning of regular foyer exhibitions, curated by Tess, often by Hampstead artists. In 1935, for example, there was an exhibition of modernist avant-garde art by Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, John Piper and Barbara Hepworth who lived and worked in or around the local Mall Studios.

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1933

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The Everyman, the UK’s first repertory cinema, opened on Boxing Day with René Clair’s Le Million (1931) supported by a Mack Sennett comedy Turbulent Timber, a Disney cartoon and Paramount News. Originally a Victorian drill hall the building had been transformed in the 1920s into the famous Everyman Theatre. The mission of the new cinema […]

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