Uhhhh...

I can watch a movie and identify a minor actor in his first appearance onscreen despite makeup, costume, and actorly affectations. I can even list earlier movies he was in with a rough timeline. But if you plop me down at a party where I have to identify someone I've encountered a couple times before in a different social setting I have no chance of recognizing their face, let alone putting a name to it or remembering where we've met. This results in conservations littered with a lot of mumbling and generalities as I try to figure out how this person knows me. I think its a condition called aphasia or agnosia or something, I can't remember.