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We interview a lot of interesting people here on the Mr. Skin blog, but few of them can say their work is as important as Joe Rubin's.

Joe basically came out of the womb an exploitation fanatic and has been amassing an impressive private collection of vintage exploitation and erotic cinema since he was a teenager. Now he's also launched a digital restoration company, Process Blue, that specializes in rescuing exploitation and X-rated films from obscurity and giving these long-neglected artifacts the respect that they deserve. Joe says that often when he contacts directors about restoring their films, they are shocked and touched to realize (often for the first time) that their work is remembered and appreciated as art. That's something that Process Blue is trying to change.

Process Blue is getting off to an auspicious start by participating in the excellent restorations of Radley Metzger's "Henry Paris" films in partnership with DistribPix and with the very exciting project they're working on now: a Kickstarter campaign to restore three previously "lost" films by exploitation legend Herschell Gordon Lewis.

We talked to Joe at his home base just around the corner from the Mr. Skin offices, where he told us about his massive collection, his work with Process Blue, and the unmatchable elegance of Kelly Nichols.

More after the jump!

John Harrison is the pied piper of sleaze. A passionate advocate of all things weird and wild, John is a collector and expert on a number of sordid subjects including comic books, amusement parks, horror movies, true crime, stag films (Anal Dwarf is one of his prize possessions), and vintage paperback novels.

John is also the author of Hip Pocket Sleaze, the definitive book on paperback pulp from Headpress Books. Hip Pocket Sleaze is not only an entertaining and insightful overview of the pulp paperback and its many interesting incarnations- lesbian pulp, Nazisploitation, sexploitation, hippiesploitation, and more- but also a handy how-to guide on how to get some of these lurid, lusty and oddly fascinating vintage books into your grubby little hands.

A freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia, John has written for scads of print and online publications (including the Mr Skin blog!), is currently working on a new book, Rene Bond: America's Tragic Teenage Fantasy.

Check out our fascinating (Sk)interview with John Harrison after the jump!

Still scrambling for a holiday gift for the skin fan in your life? Well, you can't do much better than these classic slices of '70s and '80s skinema, newly restored to their original nude glory and newly available on DVD.

Join us after the jump for Mr. Skin's top DVD re-releases of 2011!

It's called the "Show Me" state for a reason. And Kathleen Turner, Linda Blair, and the rest of our top 10 celebs from Missouri show me and you and everyone else exactly what they've got! Kansas Titty, here I cum!

This week Mr. Skin and Synapse Films released the Women in Prison Triple Feature DVD, featuring three wet n’ wild women in prison flicks: Chained Heat (1983), Red Heat (1985), and Jungle Warriors (1984).

With this nude DVD release, WIP fans can skinjoy all the skincarcerated T&A in much better quality, as the video transfer on all three films is noticeably improved from previous releases. Fans will also be slappy to hear that Chained Heat is presented in its skintirety for the first time since its theatrical run- a scene where Linda Blair is raped by John Vernon (aka Dean Wormer from Animal House) is restored for the first time on VHS or DVD. The Women in Prison Triple Feature also comes loaded with trailers, interviews with stars Stella Stevens and Sybil Danning, and video introductions by our own Mr. Skin, who rubs down the key skingredients to each film.

More on the punitively perverse films of the Women in Prison Triple Feature after the jump!

We've got a pneumatic posse of women in prison to put an iron bar in your pants this week on DVD! You'll be tugging on the ol' balls and chain as Mr. Skin proudly presents the Women in Prison Triple Feature- thrill to Linda Blair's topless debut as she scrubs up and gets down with Sybil Danning in Chained Heat (1983)! Feel your temperature rising as Emmanuelle babe Sylvia Kristel gets wet n' wild behind bars in Red Heat (1985)! And you'll be polishing your machete when a group of kidnapped fashion models falls into the sadistic hands of Sybil Danning in Jungle Warriors (1984)!

Also nude on DVD, porn princess Sasha Grey shows off her Hollywood Hills- and her furry 70's bush- on season 7 of Entourage, and you'll be pitching a tent of your own when a cabin's worth of camping cuties fall into the clutches of the Maneater (2009).

Nude on Blu-Ray, Terry Gilliam's visionary masterpiece Brazil (1985) receives the deluxe Blu-Ray treatment this week, as does Mike Leigh's controversial classic Naked (1993).

More after the jump!

1983 marked great nude beginnings in skinema, like the film debuts of future Mr. Skin Nudity Hall-of-Famers Helena Bonham Carter, Nicole Kidman, and Juliette Binoche, as well as the nude debuts of Jamie Lee Curtis, Besty Russell, Linda Blair, Lea Thompson, and more! But(t) among all the horny hellos there was one sad goodbye: Phoebe Cates's nude career went out with a moon at the end of Private School.

See more of Mr. Skin's Favorite Nude Scenes of 1983 after the jump!