Where in the world is Luis Bunuel?   on November 29, 2012 - 1:39 PM PST   of Luis Bunuel: Gran Casino (1947)   This is pretty much your standard studio product, albeit a competently-directed musical. Don't look for the surrealist Bunuel here -- he is apparently getting his hand back in after not having directed a feature for 15 years or so. All that said, there are a few memorable elements. The singing of the two leads is quite good, there are a couple of comic moments, and then -- right in the middle of a conventional dialogue scene of Jorge Negrete wooing his love, Bunuel cuts gratuitously to a couple of closeups of some icky, black gooey oil tar that Negrete is stirring around with a stick(?!?).