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Photo by Tommy Lau.

If the shoe fits

Maria Bello, honored with the Peter J. Owens award, greets fans. She told the Film Society Awards Night audience that she recently returned to New York a found-object golden shoe ("the kind a transvestite would wear") that, years and years ago, she picked up on a 23rd Street sidewalk as a sign of good things to come.

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Photo by Pamela Gentile.

Up a river

Golden Gate Award winner for Best Documentary Feature Yung Chang poses with his uncles—Wilson and Howard—who he thanked from the stage at the California Culinary Academy Wednesday night.

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Photo by Pat Mazzera.

Oxygen-ated

The audience at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center live performance of Cloud Eye Control + Anna Oxygen gets their aerobics on under the auspices of Ms. Oxygen.

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Photo by Pamela Gentile.

Buzzed

The Wackness star Josh Peck (left) and director Jonathan Levine enjoy a second on the sidewalk outside the Sundance Kabuki before the film’s Centerpiece screening.

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Photo by Tommy Lau.

Eyes opened

Retired Chilean judge Juan Guzmán, subject of the powerful documentary The Judge and the General, was greeted by a standing ovation following Monday’s screening at the Kabuki. Guzmán became internationally famous for investigating the crimes of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. “The eyes of my soul opened after seeing so many sufferings,” Guzmán said of this experience, reported Maria Belilovskaya for the SF Film Society.

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FSAN-ity

A bubbly Warren Beatty hands off the stage to Robert Towne, recipient of the Kanbar Award for Excellence in Screenwriting, who spoke lovingly about Kanbar’s creation, SKYY Vodka.

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Photo by Drew Altizer (cropped from original).

About Towne

Dede Wilsey and John Traina flash winning smiles at Film Society Awards Night, where Robert Towne, Mario Bello, and Mike Leigh were honored.

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Photo by Pamela Gentile.

Time machine

The SFIFF51 audience for Katherin McInnis’s "Woodward’s Gardens," a movie version of her Neighborhood Public Radio audio tour, donned glasses for their trip back in time.

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Photo by Pat Mazzera.

Me and Mu

At a screening of "Mock up on Mu," Craig Baldwin eats his words, and/or words about him in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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Photo by Tommy Lau.

The Greatest Show on Earth

Avowed newspaperman J. Hoberman offered a few hints on his filmmaking and filmgoing history (his first movie? The Greatest Show on Earth) in a lively discussion on criticism past and present with Film Comment editor-at-large Kent Jones during the Mel Novikoff Award presentation.

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