In most other respects, they couldn't be more different. They are nearly equal in mammoth length, each guaranteed to occupy about as much of your time as Sunday's big game. The other is a defining classic of post-modern art-house filmmaking, Chantal Akerman's influential slow-cinema masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. One of them is among the most beloved spectacles Hollywood ever bankrolled, James Cameron's disaster-weepie for the ages, Titanic. Two such films are, by coincidence, showing on the big screen in Houston this weekend. Nor has the inherent subjectivity of it all prevented certain movies from gaining traction in that debate over the years, consensus forming around them via the imperfect metrics of acclaim and popularity. Which of course hasn't stopped movie lovers from debating the subject ad nauseam.

It's no easier to objectively determine than the best color or the tastiest ice cream flavor.

What's the greatest movie of all time? Ask a thousand different people and you might get close to a thousand different answers. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Screenshot

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