THE DAILY BEAT: Exclusive photos from Cannes

Friday, June 1, 2012

Exclusive photos from Cannes

We just received the below photos from Noemie Sornet, founder of the OnTheRoad4Kerouac Project. She and Kerouac scholar Gerald Nicosia attended the premiere of On The Road, and a post-Cannes interview with Nicosia is in the works for a future post here on The Daily Beat! It will be pretty exciting to get his take on the movie.

Palais des Festivals, Cannes, where the premiere of the movie of ON THE ROAD happened on May 23, 2012. Marilyn Monroe wishes the festival a happy 65th birthday!

Crowds of people would gather outside the Palais all day long, many of them holding up signs to ask for a ticket to some film. An “invitation,” as they are called, to ON THE ROAD was the hottest ticket in town, and the hardest to get!

Gerald Nicosia with Chicago film critic Patrick Z. McGavin, on the Rue du Bivouac Napoleon, near the Palais, Cannes.

Crowd of attendees gathers on the red carpet, just before entering the Palais to see the premiere of ON THE ROAD.

Audience members begin to ascend the red carpet into the Palais, prior to the showing of ON THE ROAD.

Gerald Nicosia and Kristen Stewart at the afterparty, Magic Garden Meets the Baron club, Cannes, May 23, 2012.

Gerald Nicosia and friend Noemie Sornet, founder of the ON THE ROAD 4 KEROUAC project, underneath the giant poster of ON THE ROAD across from the Palais.

More pics to come with the Nicosia interview. Stay tuned.

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Gerald Nicosia, author of the acclaimed Kerouac biography Memory Babe, said The Beat Handbook is "full of Jack's heart."

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