With ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ A24 is pushing into movie soundtracks

Every generation has its iconic movie soundtrack. The curated collections of songs that accompanied films like The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, and Garden State took on cultural lives of their own, thanks to their ability to distill each movie’s ethos into the best kind of mixed tape. More recently, the Barbie soundtrack turned original songs from Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, and others into Billboard-charting hits. But Barbie was an outlier: It’s rare, these days, to encounter a...