Artist Laurent Durieux Breaks Down Every Poster In His New Mondo Show

"It was first a commission from Milan Records France, whom I had worked with before for Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and Oldboy soundtracks LP artworks. It's also one of the first, if not the first movie I watched in a theater as a kid and it left a great impression on me. I was scared that when I had to re-watch it to do the poster, the movie would have aged badly, but it really didn't. It was just as awesome for a 48 year old guy as it was for an 11 year old boy."

"This movie is in my top five best science fiction movies of all time (along with Blade Runner, Alien, Gattaca and Star Wars). The scenario is perfect – everything in this movie is just first rate. I think it will be regarded as a masterpiece of anticipation fiction (like Netflix's Black Mirror) in a few years. The idea for my poster was to illustrate the fact that Caleb found himself prisoner of Ava's manipulative intelligence. Like we could all be very soon with AI...or aren't we already?"

"I don't usually like horror movies, but here, it's so much more than that. What could I say? Kubrick's masterpiece of horror is a genuine masterpiece indeed. Its one of those you can watch a hundred times and discover new things, new details you hadn't noticed before. There are so many layers on this film, that I think I could have made 10 different posters for it. The typewriter/axe project was originally done as a concept sketch for one of my fans who attended either MondoCon or ThoughtBubble in Leeds and I always loved it. There are quite a lot of existing projects with the typewriter out there, but I somehow managed to come up with something no one had thought of before."

"Three years ago, I was contacted by Francis Ford Coppola's collaborator to ask me if I would be interested in designing/creating the visual for a steel box edition of the film. I had to turn down the offer as my schedule wasn't allowing me to do it and told them that they probably would have to wait a couple of years before I could get to it. I was expecting them to tell me, "Well, okay, we'll find someone else who could do it for us quicker", but to my surprise, they said "Mr. Coppola will wait." Apparently, Francis didn't want anyone else but me to tackle his masterpiece of a film. What an honor!"

"This was a convention sketch commission done during Thought Bubble in Leeds. I showed it to Eric Garza right then and asked if they could get the license for it, as there are plenty of Titanic fans out there. You know who you are. Yes, you there with the badass tattoos! I love the movie, period. I thought the idea was pretty cool and witty. That's our job as creators to bring new interpretations on films."

"This image was originally commissioned by Milan Records France for a fantastic re-edtion of the Miles Davis soundtrack to Elevator to the Gallows. I had this perfect idea with the jacket cover and dust jacket, but this will never happen as the folks at Milan told me (way too late when the art was finished) that they didn't get the license to publish it after all. Being my favorite piece of the lot, I just couldn't bring myself to not print it or show it to people. So Mondo was very happy to make it available as an art print and that's awesome! I LOVE THIS FILM NOIR MOVIE! If you have never watched it, please do yourself a favor."