Studio 54

Studio 54 (2018), directed by Matt Tyrnauer, is a feature documentary you can watch online on iFILM. In 1977, two Brooklyn friends — Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell — took over a Manhattan theatre and turned it into the era's most coveted address almost overnight. Tyrnauer's camera returns 39 years after the velvet rope came down.

Inside, the guest list reads like a decade's worth of pop culture: Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bianca Jagger, John Travolta. The glitter lasted two years before the IRS came knocking — both founders were arrested for tax evasion in 1979. The film is less a club obituary and more a time capsule of how one room on West 54th Street could define a whole era. Stream Studio 54 (2018) online on iFILM.