Morten Piil (1 March 1943 – 22 March 2018[1]) was a Danish writer and
film critic. He received a
Bodil Honorary Award in 2002 for his "long-standing contribution to Danish film literature".[2][3]
Piil was a film critic at Berlingske Tidende 1962–67, and has since then been at Dagbladet Information where he has also written about literature and rock music. He was a film consultant at the
Danish Film Institute 1975–77, and 1968-96 consultant for
DR's film department.[4]
Piil has written several reference works on
Danish cinema. His three books published on
Gyldendal, Danske filmskuespillere ("Danish film actors") (2001), a
monograph on 525 actors active in the period 1930–2001,[5]Danske filminstruktører ("Danish filmmakers") (2005), detailing 120 Danish film directors active between 1930 and 2005,[6] and Gyldendals danske filmguide ("Gyldendals Danish film guide") (2008), a description of 1200 Danish feature films — virtually every major film release from 1930 to 2008,[7] poses with a total volume of approximately 1,800 pages the most comprehensive survey of Danish film and the main figures behind it.
In 2003, Information published Film på hjernen: 40 års bedste biografoplevelser a 664-page selection of his film criticism from the last 40 years.[8][9]
Per Calum; Morten Piil; Viggo Holm Jensen; Ib Monty (1969).
Generationsskifte i Hollywood (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Det Danske Filmmuseum.
Ib Monty; Morten Piil (1970).
Se, det er film — i klip (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Fremad.
François Truffaut; Alfred Hitchcock; Morten Piil (1973).
Hitchcock om Hitchcock (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Rhodos.
Peter Kirkegaard; Morten Piil; Bo Tao Michaëlis; Jørgen Stegelmann; Marianne Rosen; Anders Bodelsen (1985).
Truffaut: tolv film-essays (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Centrum.
ISBN978-87-583-0270-6.