@ wpqx: 

All right, but if you have libraries around which carry such films, you're fortunate nevertheless. We haven't got something like that here. Praise yourself lucky! 

@ arsaib. 

I just might show up one of these days. Are you serious?! The smiley isn't assuring... 

I'd certainly like to explore more of Japanese auteur Wakamatsu Kôji. 
...who was considered a Trash and Porn Filmmaker almost his entire life but nowadays, he's suddenly a political artist * ... That's the typical kind of cinematic double standard today. Hopefully, the same people will also discover my admired Dario Argento as the serious auteur he is in my opinion. It doesn't seem they already do, though he once was member of the Jury at the Berlinale a few years ago (Roland Emmerich also was...). 

As for the Czechoslovak New Wave films and Chytilová, you may also want to check out Fruit of Paradise and her work in the omnibus Pearls of the Deep. Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is of similar vein. And Nemec's Diamonds of the Night keeps one foot firmly in the avant-garde (its surrealistic tones and editing patterns will remind you of The Cremator, and some of the action itself of Van Sant's Gerry). 
Thanks a lot! Your description of "Diamonds of the Night" sounds intoxicating... I tracked down a German dubbed VHS-Copy of "Fruits of Paradise" but it was in unwatchable shape. I also have heard (and read) tons of intriguing things about "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" but as long as I can't purchase a subtitled DVD for a human price (the UK and US-DVDs are OOP as far as I know), I can't do much more than waiting. Anyway, I'm out of money and czech cinema will have to wait (but there's a VHS of Milos Forman's "Black Peter" waiting for me ). 

* Very funny - many people (critics...) were enthusiastic about "United Red Army" as a great example of political cinema. During the Q&A after the Film, Wakamatsu clearly expressed that he had no political film in mind . The elder films of his that were screened showed political tendencies, though (Especially "Ecstasy of the Angels").