How To with John Wilson

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I loved all seasons of this show so much and often think about the Avatar fan group episode among other things. Just learned that Sundance screened his new film The History of Concrete.

John Wilson (creator of HBO’s How to With John Wilson) learns about a building material, Italian wax sculptures, New York City housing initiatives and more in this typically quirky, revelatory, touching doc. It’s all a gateway for Wilson to ponder permanence and immortality, which things society preserves and which we allow to crack and crumble. I doubt any doc will make me laugh harder this year, but the film is heartbreaking in addition to being patently absurd. — DANIEL FIENBERG