As the last glimmer of summer recedes with each passing second, minute, hour, and day. Slowing to a flickering halt like the reel of rolling camera as the light shining through its lens retreats back behind it --even as un-dimming lights along the walls expose empty chairs, leftover popcorn, and an empty theater. Empty they remain -- the floors, the chairs -- barren, like branches bereft of leaves eagerly fluttering away to populate the ground. Even as students go from populating intern desks at Goldman Sachs, beach cabins at Cape Cod, restocking shelves with t-shirts and jeans at a minimum wage retail job, to populating lecture halls and libraries -- and the floors and chairs within them.

As reels begin unwinding in theaters before audiences whose numbers continue to dwindle as fall approaches, here are five films to catch while making use of the extra space: