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Brian Miller
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October 15, 2026

On the Block: The History of Concrete

We at the DJC strive to bring all the most hard-hitting concrete news to you, our loyal readers. So when a documentary called The History of Concrete appears in theaters, we're all over it.




Now, let it first be said that director John Wilson's droll, observational and amiably meandering film admittedly carries a misleading title. He starts out — jobless since his HBO docu-series ended — in search of the next paying project. Any project. “Now is not the time for Ken Burns,” he's told. After a few false starts and Zoom pitches to frowning would-be producers and financiers, he settles on the ground beneath his feet. And, being based New York City (and Ridgewood, Queens, more specifically), that ground is mostly concrete. It's “the second most used material on the planet,” he says, after water.


 
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