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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document mommis role in the taut police thrill- /ne boisnot ballet pertorming on IV er "Infernal Affairs," is appropri- ately fragile as the dreamy, love- struck Fan, and Mr. Wang is a riot as his bawdy Sancho Panza of a side- Kick. Like Giuseppe Tornatore's "Cine- BALLET REVIEW Trivial to Sor ma Paradiso," "Just One Look," which opens today at the Two Boots By JOHN ROCKWELL Pioneer Theater in the East Village, is a tribute to the formative power of cinema, a coming-of-age film that nimbiy interweaves the adolescent hero's struggles with clips from the movies that shape his romantieized notions of life. These excerpts will be u more evocative for those familiar with Hong Kong cinema of the 1970's, but the story itself should resonate "with anyone who's been through the paintul apprenticeship of learning suthe difference berween life and the movies. taisene ntertammen Charlene Choi in "Just One Look" a nostalgic coming-of-age film. Just One Look Opens in Manhattan today: Directed by Riley Ip; written (in Cantonese, with English subtitles) by Mr. Ip; director of photography, Chan Chi-ving: edited by Mau- rice Li, musie by Henry Lal; produced by Al- bert Yeung; released by Tai Seng Entertain- ment At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 Bast Third Streec at Avenue A. East Village: Running time: 96 minutes: This film is not rat- ed WITH: Shawn Yu (Fan), Wong You-nam (Ming), Charlene Chol (Nam), Gillian Chung (Yew) and Anthony Wong (Crazy): Ah, well, the Bolshoi Ballet is in town and can't escape its past so here's another Soviet ballet. But "The Bright Stream, which opened a three performance run. Monday night at the Metropolitan Opera House, is a very ditferent work in nearly every respect from "Sparta- cus." which ended its run on Satur- day, In a sense, albeit a negative sense. "The Bright Stream" is even more purely Soviet, not to say Stalinist, than "Spartacus." It was first done in 1935, to a brightly appealing score by Shostakovich and choreography by Fyodor Lopukhov, then a famous. progressive figure in Russian baller, But Pravda, meaning Stalin, hated it, it disappeared from the stage, and it was revived only in 2003 by Alexei Ratmansky, the Bolshol's new artis tie director. "Spartacus" is about a slave re- volt, and "The Bright Stream" about happy cavortings on IS acol lective farm. Pravda prociaimed it formalistic and trivial, given the no- ble work that collective farms were supposedly undertaking in the mid-1930's. But the real animus may have been Stalin's hostility to Shosta- kovich; it seems likely that «The Bright Stream" was caught in the wake of Stalin's fury about Shostako- vich's opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District." The composer, who in any event felt constrained by The Bolshol Ballet performs through Saturday at the Metropolitan Opero House, (212) 362-6000,*The Bricht Stream" ends tonight and wilt be per- formed at the Orange County Per- forming Arts Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., Aug. 9 to 11. CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW The Bulgarian Marimba Man: tival. He began with Eric Sammut's By ALLAN KOZINN *Four Rotations" an easygoing, gracefully melodic suite for marim- ba. Mr. Sammut's jazz-inflected har When percussionists give recitals monic language and contrapuntal they usually pack the platform with textures often called to mind the instruments and objects to beat on. But Svet Stoyanov, a young percus sionist from Bulgaria who won the Concert Artists Guild competition in Svet Stoyanov 2003, used a surprisingly modest set- Pace University up in his recital at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University on Monday evening. Mostly, he played the marimba, and he did so with a winning combinatión of gentleness and fluidity. He also doubled on the vibraphone in one work," and offered short solos on a trap set and the tapan, a Bulgarian drum. Mr. Stoyanov's recital was part of the Summer Stars series, which in turn is part of the River to River Fes- The Summer Stars series includes concerts by Antares on Monday, and Daniel Bernard Roumain on Aug. 8, at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace, 3 Spruce Street. Modern Jazz Quartet's flirtations with classical works. And at four short movements it was exactly the right length. For a "Fantasy on Popular Bul- garian Rhythms, " the first of two works played bearing Mr. Stoyanov'S composition credit, he used the tapan, a round drum that looks like a small military bass drum but pro- duces a lighter timbre. The piece of- fers what its title promises: an in- ventive and varied essay built on the metrically uneven patterns of Bul- garian folk dances, presented with an understated but unmistakable vir- tuosity. NYC-WTC_000143478