Pedro Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) is not a film for today. I can imagine fewer things more transgressive to our sensibilities than the tale of an orphaned and institutionalized stalker who kidnaps a porn actress trying to breakthrough into mainstream movies. Worse yet, events are played as a comedy, complete with two musical numbers and a color palette straight out of your high-school Spanish textbook. Other similar films like Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986) get around... Read more