Lincoln Center and Cinecittà have assembled 19 films—presented in 4K restorations and imported prints—that trace the making and unmaking of Italy as a nation, from the Risorgimento through the rise of Mussolini and W.W. II. The lineup moves from Visconti’s Senso and The Leopard through Bertolucci’s 1900 and The Conformist, Rossellini’s war trilogy, the Taviani brothers, and on to contemporary directors including Marco Bellocchio, Alice Rohrwacher, and Pietro Marcello. All circle around the question that Italian cinema has never quite stopped asking: What is Italy? —Elena Clavarino