Vet Japanese helmer Kichitaro Negishi’s period meller “Villon’s Wife” depicts a long-suffering woman’s relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on ...

Obie-winning playwright Murray Mednick takes a look at the Middle Ages life of notorious French poet Francois Villon. By Myron Meisel Francois Villon, the original 15th century prototype of the outlaw ...

Starting Thursday, April 7, diners will once again be able to slide into a tufted leather banquette to dine under skirted chandeliers at Villon, the praiseworthy and “eclectic cool” restaurant on the ...

Ellen Fort is a Nashville-based writer and editor covering the restaurant industry, food trends, recipes, and beyond. She has worked as editor for Eater SF, Sunset Magazine, and SAVEUR. “The city is ...

On June 5, 1455, the French activist, poet and thief François Villon killed a priest with a sword. As punishment, he was banished from Paris, but he was eventually given a royal pardon and went on to ...

AMID too much courtly verse-turning of the 14th-16th centuries, the unattainable dames, later the sportive nymphs and shepherds, one voice speaks to the modern ear like clanging metal amid tinsel: ...

A FEW artists, like a few wines, mature very slowly. France’s Jacques Villon, vintage 1875, is a case in point. On view at Manhattan’s Lucien Goldschmidt bookstore last week was Villon’s latest and ...