Circus as Film / Circus in Film / Film as Circus

Francisco's ringside analysis of the circus as a metaphor for film, discussing Federico Fellini's quasi-documentary, "The Clowns" alongside Wim Wenders's "Wings of Desire" and other works. Nostalgia fills the fate of this world, "All the circuses have become stages," claims a retired clown, characters, like so many others by an empty sadness. Has cultural film followed this fate?