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Daniel Scheinert’s Favorite Movies: 10 Films the ‘Everything Everywhere’ Co-Director Wants You to See

If “Swiss Army Man” was the film that established Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (AKA The Daniels) as two interesting voices to watch, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was the movie that catapulted them into the stratosphere. Their genre-bending multiverse saga was one of the unlikeliest awards juggernauts ever, sweeping the Oscars nearly a year after the film’s SXSW premiere. 

After writing and directing two feature films as a duo, The Daniels’ creative aesthetic is fairly well-defined. The two filmmakers love using unapologetically weird premises to tell wholesome stories, and pull from a variety of influences including classic comedies, kung fu movies, and 2010s Internet culture. All of their work contains layers upon layers of explicit and implicit references to movies and TV shows that came before them. Simply put, you don’t make movies like “Everything Everywhere All at Once” without being obsessed with pop culture. And Daniel Scheinert’s favorite movies list is exactly as eclectic as you’d expect it would be.

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Scheinert has been especially vocal about the movies that shaped him, and he contributed his own ballot to the 2022 Sight & Sound Best Films of All Time poll, offered some predictably outside-the-box- picks. His list is a great starting point for those looking for a skeleton key to unlock “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — or anyone who just wants to consume some delightfully wacky cinema. 

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