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For my daughter, Creedance, who went with me to Fantasia at age three, shared her gasp of awe for E.T. at four, sat through all eight hours of Little Dorrit at eight, and Dickens’ Hard Times, the Portuguese version with English subtitles, at nine, whose childhood favorite movies were the Swedish Pippi Longstocking films, and whose favorite film as an adult is Amelie.