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I've seen all but Barry Lyndon. Strangelove is far and away my favorite.
Clockwork is ultra violent. I get that that's the intent, and I like the movie, but the acting and story line aren't as strong.
FMJ, as pointed out, is often quoted and that's probably why I'm a little burnt out by it. Plus, it was preceded by Platoon and Hamburger Hill and seemed to be a tag along.
2001 was good, but I preferred 2010. Lolita was also very good. Eyes Wide Shut, do people really look like hobby horses when they screw? The Shining is creepy as hell, and I always think of that as a Stephen King trait, not a Kubrick trait.
A couple of oddities about Strangelove, they wanted Sellers to also play the part eventually taken by Slim Pickens. Health issues thwarted that, so they wanted a real cowboy. They offered it to Dan "Hoss" Cartwright, but he returned the script with a note that it was too "pinko" for him. So then they offered it to Pickens, a real life rodeo clown - ironically far more conservative than Cartwright.
Towards the end, there's a table of pies and cakes in the situation room. There was supposed to be a scene where the Russian and American generals and presidents duke it out via food fight, but the actors in the scene had too much fun and laughed and smiled. Kubrick wanted a serious pie fight, so he cut it.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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