The Renoir Cinema currently has a lift down to the bar and lower foyer area but there are five steps into the actual auditorium. This will change in coming months when we will improve accessibility further.

The cinema began life as the first British venture of the American Walter Reade Organisation who wanted to capitalise on the nearby audience of young people college students, doctors and nurses walking nearby.
It opened as the Bloomsbury Cinema in January 1972 with THE TROJAN WOMEN (starring Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave). EMI took over the lease, renaming it the ABC in 1974, then in 1981 rented it to the owners of the Gate at Notting Hill. In 1985 owners Cinegate closed the building for an indefinite period.

Artificial Eye redecorated and reopened the cinema we now know and love on the 9th May 1986 with VAGABOND (starring Sandrine Bonnaire) and NO SURRENDER (written by Alan Bleasdale).