There is now a Stanley Kubrick Retrospective in Germany, which will hopefully make it's way to the States in the near future. Kubrick saved enough costumes, props, and notes from all of his movies to fill up 10 rooms of his estate; this stockpile of memorabilia was all raided to fill up the exhibit.
The article linked above brings up many of the questions that are left behind with Kubrick's death. Did he actually finish Eyes Wide Shut before his death?
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What would A.I. have looked like if he had actually helmed it? What was going on in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(the best answer I've seen for that last question phrases it in light of 60s pop-images of future technologies: computers would change mankind as completely as the tool changed our ancestors into a new type of being, which is of course bogus – see notably ginandtacos.
com hero Louis Menand's sharp take on it here)
These are all fair and good questions, but deep in my heart the only question that needs answering is "What was the look on the guy's face when he first heard 2 Live Crew's 'Me So Horny'?"
For those of you who don't know, the chorus ("me so horny (x3) me love you long time") and the intro are both sampled from Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Someone had to sit down with him and play him the song. Can you even picture it?
Manager: "Stanley, these rappers from California sampled part of Full Metal Jacket in one of their songs."
Kubrick: "Interesting. I wonder if they are singing about the large number of Africa-Americans who were forced to fight in Vietnam for a country that wouldn't even recognize them. Perhaps they have an entirely different take on the themes of dehumanization presented in the film."
::cue song::
Luke Skyywalker: "Sitting at home with my dick hard / so I got the black book for a freak to call"
::and Kubrick wept::