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Morten Piil

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]

Morten Piil
Born(1943-03-01)1 March 1943
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died22 March 2018(2018-03-22) (aged 75)
NationalityDanish
Occupation(s)Film critic, writer

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]

Piil has translated three works of Vladimir Nabokov to Danish.

Selected works edit

  • Ib Monty; Morten Piil (1964). Se — det er film: en antologi af filmessays (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Fremad.
  • Ib Monty; Morten Piil (1965). Se — det er film: en antologi af filmessays (in Danish). Vol. 2. Copenhagen, Denmark: Fremad.
  • Ib Monty; Morten Piil (1966). Se — det er film: en antologi af filmessays (in Danish). Vol. 3. Copenhagen, Denmark: Fremad.
  • 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. ISBN 978-87-583-0270-6.
  • Morten Piil (2000). Gyldendals filmguide: danske film fra A til Z (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. ISBN 978-87-00-47806-0.
  • Christian Monggaard; Morten Piil (2003). Filmquiz: Bind 1 (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Informations Forlag. ISBN 978-87-7514-089-3.
  • Morten Piil (2003). Film på hjernen: 40 års bedste biografoplevelser (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Informations forlag. ISBN 978-87-7514-077-0.
  • Christian Monggaard; Jacob Wendt Jensen; Morten Piil (2004). Filmquiz: Bind 2 (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Informations Forlag. ISBN 978-87-7514-102-9.
  • Morten Piil (2005). Danske filminstruktører (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. ISBN 978-87-02-02981-9.
  • Morten Piil (2006). Danske filmskuespillere (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. ISBN 978-87-02-02104-2.
  • Morten Piil (2008). Gyldendals danske filmguide (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. ISBN 978-87-02-06669-2.

References edit

  1. ^ "Filmelskeren i sit rette element". Information (in Danish). Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Se det er filmkritik!". Information (in Danish). 27 February 2003. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. ^ Christian Braad Thomsen (2005). Vreden, gudinde, besyng!: tidslinjer 1940 - 2005 (in Danish). Lindhardt og Ringhof. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-87-595-2489-3.
  4. ^ "Morten Piil | Gyldendal — Den Store Danske". denstoredanske.dk. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  5. ^ Iversen, Ebbe (22 October 2001). "Ib, Iben og alle idolerne - Kultur". b.dk. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  6. ^ Vindum, Anne (16 January 2006). "Op på fars hat og mors arbejde - Morten Piil DANSKE FILMINSTRUKTØRER". litteraturnu.dk. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  7. ^ Iversen, Ebbe (18 November 2008). "Prægtigt værk om dansk film - Bøger". b.dk. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  8. ^ Jensen, Peter Due. "Sentura — Morten Piil: Film på hjernen - 40 års bedste biografoplevelser". sentura.dk. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  9. ^ Seidelin, Christopher (2013). "kosmorama231_194_artikel14.pdf" (PDF). pdf.js. Retrieved 10 March 2015.

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