THE Coen Brothers' latest film The Man Who Wasn't There (15), starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand and James Gandolfini, is showing at Malvern Cinema for a week from tonight (Friday).

Set in 1940s California, it is an amusing and accomplished film noir featuring Thornton as a small-town barber who turns to blackmail. The Man Who Wasn't There is on at 7pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 7.30pm on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with 3pm matinees on Saturday, Sunday and Thursday.

Showing for one night only on Wednesday at 8.15pm is Intimacy (18), dubbed "the most controversial film of the year" by one critic. It stars Kerry Fox, Mark Rylance, Timothy Spall and Marianne Faithfull in an uncompromising look at a relationship between a married woman and a divorced father.